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 > the data, it is still deleted needlessly.
You are confusing global and local loss of data. The idea is that the algorithm spreads the data in such a manner as to keep it around as long
