On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:23:11PM -0500, Owen Williams wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2001 02:14:15 +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> 
> > If you are not going to delete data in that situation -
> > what are you going to do with it?
> > 
> 
> My problem with this philosophy is that it is misleading.  If I have a
> node that needs to delete X bytes of data, it doesn't mean all of
> freenet is totally overloaded.  It just means my own node is out of
> space.  The question is, how does my node find another node that can
> spare those X bytes for my file?  If my node contains the only copy of

In a mature Freenet network all nodes will be at full
capacity. Where's this data gonna go?

> the data, it is still deleted needlessly.  btw, when I do an insert of a
> file does it get uploaded to anywhere except my own node?

Yes. It gets sent to as many nodes as the HTL of the insert request is
set to.

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