> Um, before the Freenet interface is totally solidified, I think file
> size and splitting should be addressed.  I'd be in favor of Freenet
> being incapable of accepting anything bigger or smaller than 65536 bytes
> (2^16).  I chose this number so there can be a 2 byte "data length"
> field.  
I'd *like* to say limit to 65536 bytes, but I just can't, because it
tickles my no-no button for security.  Having a large file (say
multi-megabytes) split into that many chunks means that you might have to
access a very large chunk of freenet to retrieve it.  I don't like the
bandwidth ramifications because its starts to approach the nasty
B-word.  

I think that a file being split into more than 10-15 parts is excessive. 

> At the same time, there needs to be some sort of metadocument thing to
> list all the parts that make up a particular file.  This is more of a
> client issue, but these two kind of go hand in hand in my opinion.  
Easily solved already.  We have document-private metadata.

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