On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:52:40PM +0100, toad wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:48:16AM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote: > > > > You get a pretty good guess of how big the document is from the key (SSK, > > SVK, > > KSK <= 32k, CHK has a size byte) so you could just prefetch anything up to a > > certain size (say, 128kB on a fast connection), without having to figure out > > the type...
The size byte in the CHK currently limits the size of the parts, not the total file. > What was decided about moving the metadata into a separate key? It would > appear > that that could solve this problem since the metadata key could and probably > would contain a content length, especially if it was a splitfile, which most > large files will probably be in 0.4 because of power of 2 filesize forcing. It would not solve the problem since the metadata file could be a lie. One would then need to be able to put a size filter on the request message but for a multitude of reasons that we have been over in the past, we want to encode all such filters into the actual key. -- 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded. Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Sun May 6 15:05:38 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA27365 for <danello at danky.com>; Fri, 4 May 2001 09:31:44 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
