On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Adam Wern wrote: > Two questions > > 1. Does redundancy make streaming content from freenet impossible? > (I mean without having the whole file in store) Or has it never > been possible? > Depends on what you mean by streaming. If you want any sort of guaranteed rates, no. If you just want the first part of the file before the second before the next, then this is still possible with the specced redundancy system, but the guaranteed bandwidth will be hard to come by if the system is unable to find a large number of blocks.
> 2. Will our redundancy recreate the all missing parts and put them > in store, or will it just keep the downloaded minimum set in the > store. Example: 10 of 11 parts is sufficient to recreate a file. > Assuming we download ten parts, should we then create the 11:th > part and put it in store? > > / Adam Wern > > wire > > Adam Wern - wern at kth.se > "You can do anything, but not everything" recreating and inserting missing parts is certainly possible, but is a client issue (just like all these redundancy issues). Whether we should is debatable (like just about everything proposed on freenet-devl). Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at bigfoot.com If you love something, set it free. GPG 1536g/B9C5D1F7 fpr:075A A3F7 F70B 1397 345D A67E 70AA 820B A806 F95D -------------- 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/20011010/573477c9/attachment.pgp>
