On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:34:52PM -0500, Brandon wrote: > As has been discussed on the mailing list, the only way to have two copies > of the same file collide when inserted and also not allow the first > inserter to have total control over the contents of the metadata is to not > put metadata in CHKs.
If we are talking about client-side metadata then all we are really doing by allowing metadata is providing a standard way to attach a set of key-data pairs to a piece of data. If we didn't specify such a way, then client writers would, but they would each probably do it in a different way. > Metadata for CHKs can be stored in a separate document. As mentioned, this would double the time required to retrieve these documents, and since I anticipate that most documents will be smaller than whatever threshold we reccomend for splitting files, it would basically make Freenet twice as slow. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010505/76605026/attachment.pgp>
