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]
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