"gnutella fan" <gnutellafan at hotmail.com> writes: > I have a few questions that I have not been able to answer after > reading much of the info on the freenet site. > > -Does freenet support multisource uploads/downloads? > Yes. When a large file is inserted, it should be inserted as a splitfile, i.e. the file is inserted as a bunch of pieces of the file. Your client then requests the list of pieces first, and then proceeds to request each of the pieces (usually from different sources).
> -The files that are mirrored, can they be partial files? IE, so if > there is a 700MB file can peices of it be shared on multiple nodes or > does one node have to provide all 700MB? > yes, that is what the splitfile idea is above. > -Is there a reason that users cannot choose to share a portion of > their HD that contains files but is unencryped? Of course each users > should still have to provide some min amount of cache space as well, > but if the network did not know the difference it would still provide > much of the same security while encouraging users to share more > space. In addition if I want to share something and I am not worried > about the content I could keep it on my computer and not have to worry > about it being lost from the network if I dont refresh it. > No. The network would have no way to know to look on your computer for those files. The way the network finds files is that it looks where it would have put those files on insert. You have to insert your files for them to be put where the network would expect to find them. This is also why having keys permenantly stay in your store isn't useful at all, because the network isn't trying to look for the keys there. Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at bigfoot.com Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
