On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:10:03AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Note that compressing anything that has already been compressed, such > as most image, audio, or video formats, is pointless.
True, but packing them may be far from pointless. Also, gzip usually manages to squeeze a percent or two out of big video files. > > Ian. > > On 19 May 2006, at 09:56, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >Most of the time I expect the node to decide what goes into a > >container. > >How can it decide this? I propose the following rules: > >- Anything which is over 3 blocks compressed (10 blocks uncompressed?) > > should not go in a manifest. > >- Anything much larger than the average probably shouldn't go in a > > manifest. > >- Content of the same type should go in the same container, in > >order to > > optimize compression. > >- Small uncompressible content should go into a container, but not the > > same manifest as highly compressible content e.g. HTML. > > > >Hence, the Hardware Book might have two tar.bz2's, one containing all > >the HTML, and the other containing everything else. The base redirect > >block would contain the top level metadata for both manifests. > > > >Is it useful to split a site up into multiple containers? > > > >Certainly we should let the client provide hints as to how to slice up > >the site, but it may be useful to split it up without reference to the > >directory structure of the site... Maybe on ClientPutComplexDir, > >an optional ContainerName for each file? > >-- > >Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > >ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > >_______________________________________________ > >Devl mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFEbfvtQtgxRWSmsqwRAjeIAJ4gB3hlEf9OmnIiF0SyXPuMNOAUdACfYH2v > 83gkVQkGG+zURDAjUO+KLlc= > =vFU+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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