On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:28:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Umm, we don't want them on Freenet. > > Just because they are potentially infinite doesn't mean that the clients will > necessarily insert infinite number of blocks. What if it turns out that if FEC > was capable of producing 1.7n rather than 1.5n blocks out of each file the > chances of retrieval would increase significantly? There probably is a treshold > of redundancy that provides "sufficient" retrievability and does not flood the > network. Otherwise all arguments against these codes could have been applied > against FEC in the first place ;-)
Ok. As long as you are not planning to use 1000% redundancy. > > Also, from a brief overlook of the algorithm it looks like it will require much > less cpu as its mostly XORs, and various limitations such as chunk size, # of > chunks per segment, etc. don't seem to apply. That's useful. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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