> There's simply no way you can download a 150 MB splitfile with only > a 256 MB data store.? FEC decoding uses quite a bit of overhead and > temporary space.? You're going to have to give Freenet more disk > space to work with.? Matthew can give you exact numbers, but off > the cuff, I think you'll need at least a gigabyte to have a reasonable > chance of success.
[quote] I am not familiar with the underlying technology but from a perspective of someone who is new to Freenet it seems ridiculous and counter-intuitive to require so much extra space in the datastore. If your FEC decoding needs so much disk space, couldn't you use some extra hard drive space on a temporary basis, instead of using up the datastore? That would make the limitation be the amount of free space on the hard disk, and dramatically decrease the number of users who see this error. [/quote] Mmm, yes, why does it take so much extra space? At the minimum, a bit better algorithm for that? Maybe set aside an area specifically for decoding? I don't like the idea of using temporary parts of the HD, but I don't like the datastore being used like that. Not everyone has 80gb hard drives on hand like some of us. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030303/ade46c3d/attachment.html>
