On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:25:23PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > Well, there are two sides to this. If they aren't going to succeed, do > we really want them to burden the network needlessly? Wouldn't it be > better if the data was just permitted to fall out more quickly. All the data is available on the network, it just hasn't propagated enough for anyone (who wants it) to be downloaded in its entirety yet. If we could predict with 100% certainty up front when a download would fail and not do it, nobody would ever be able to get the entire file. However, if everybody propagates the blocks they can get, after a while people start being able to get the whole file.
> Even if Freenet does encourage them to prematurely terminate the > download, it will still have requested a number of pieces - so it will > still serve to help propogate a file initially. Yeah, it's a start. But I think continuing the download even if it's not going to succeed is more of a service (if the downloader is truly interested in the file) than a burden for the network, and I think it should be presented as such to the end user. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: 21A7 C7F3 fvw@[var.cx|stack.nl|chello.nl] ICQ#10074100 1FF3 47FF 545C CB53 Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/fvw at var.cx 7BD9 09C0 3AC1 6DF2 _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
