On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:03:53PM -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
> > > It may be possible, but it's quite undesirable to parse the CHK to
> > > find the size.  It's not sufficient that all chunks but the last be
> > > full, because they could be different power-of-2 sizes.  
> > Huh? CHKs are power of two sizes. You can take the CHK URI and without
> > fetching anything find out which power of two it is. And if all but the
> > last CHK are required to be full and sans metadata, you know how big
> > everything is and can reconstruct in situ. OTOH, it's pointless to
> > reconstruct in situ because everyone should be using redundant splitfiles,
> > which are more complex. If we are using rsplits, all the chunks will
> > probably be the same size.
> 
> okay, how do you get the size out of the URI?
I was mistaken. We can get the verification part size, but this does not
tell us the actual key size without making ridiculous client-dependant
assumptions.
> 
> Thelema
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