I just downloaded LOTR from Freenet, and I've noticed some minor problems with downloading large SplitFiles:
First of all, shouldn't segments be downloaded randomly like each of the blocks are? Large downloads could get too unreliable after a few segments if a lot of people stop downloading part way. Also, I have a lot of partitions. Freenet is installed on my F drive, the temp directory is on my C drive, and I was saving the movie to my H drive. One thing I noticed was that when the download was done, Mozilla was saving a copy of the file to the C drive before it finally transferred it to the H drive. The download failed a few times before I figured out that my C drive was running out of space from the temp files and mozilla eating it all up. I propose having the SplitFile UI request a path to save a file to before the download process begins, so that the web browser doesn't inefficiently download files to the wrong partition, then copy it over to the right partition. Another problem that I noticed is that if the user is away for several hours after the download completes, the download seems to time out and not let the user save it. Requesting the path to save to beforehand would solve this problem too. _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
