Can anyone please point me at any best practices for choosing the length of the Metalink <pieces/> element? I looked at RFC 5854 and the discussion group archives, and while they make quite clear how to interpret the length attribute of the <pieces/> element, I found no discussion yet on how to choose good values. Is there any "conventional wisdom" in the Metalink community on choosing good values? Can anyone please offer me any advice?
It seems that you would want to choose a larger value for larger files, to keep the number of </hash> descendant elements from exploding. At the same time, too large a value would make it less efficient for clients to isolate errors I found many resources that say that the length of pieces in torrent files is almost always a power of two, but I found no explanation of why that is. Is there a good reason why the length of BitTorrent pieces is usually a power of two? Is the length of Metalink <pieces/> also usually a power of two? Thanks for any advice! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/metalink-discussion/-/O-k4tlLtSYIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en.
