Arend <arend at dgb.nl> wrote: > I read a lot of messages concerning sorting of documents in order of > their size. What happens with very big files? As far as I understand > now, my client only has contact with a small number of other clients. > This means that whatever file I want to retrieve, it has to be copied > onto my neigbour's computer before it's sent to me. Of course, these > computers have a limited disk storage, so we want to throw out unpopular > data. But there's another problem: what if the file I want to request is > bigger then the disk storage on the computer it is supposed to pass > trough?
The file does not have to be completely accumulated on your neighbor's computer before it is sent to you. As the file stream arrives at your neighbor, it starts streaming it to you, and also copying it onto its disk. If it runs out of space on its disk, it can decide not to save the file itself, but it continues streaming the rest of it to you. There are also proposals on the table for splitting files which are along the same lines as your idea. theo _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
