On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:39:22PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> When a splitfile download finishes it often has a tendency to hang on "FEC
> decoding missing data blocks... this may take a while; please be patient."
> seemingly forever. I know this is a known bug to some but I'm not sure if
> everyone knows about it.
> 
> When I try to cancel the download (usually while it is supposedly FEC
> decoding) so I can try again it takes forever and I have to shutdown the
> node to get it to stop so I can restart the download.
> 
> An idea: I have 40G of ds only half of which is used after months of
> operation. I am on a DS-3 so my node doesn't lack for bandwidth and I
> always run the latest rev. This isn't good. Empty space in the ds is
> wasted space and hurts freenet performance. It would be helpful if there
> was something in fnp which allowed a node with a partially full ds to ask
> one of its peers to give it a key, preferably one in the requesting nodes
> area of specialization (isn't some specialiation info sent out in
> announcement requests?) but any data at all would be better than an empty
> datastore and having to poll keys and hope to get lucky in order to get
> the datastore to fill up. I don't think I have ever had pcaching kick in
> because I have never been able to fill my store. If everyone would fill
> their datastores when their node started up I bet our psuccess would
> increase significantly.

You could spider Fredweb... There are security issues with a give me a
random file command. They were discussed some time ago...
> 
> -- 
> Tracy Reed
> http://copilotconsulting.com

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