On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:16:37AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
>
> Perhaps instead of encouraging everyone who drops by the Freenet homepage
> to run a node, curious visitors should be encouraged to download a client
> and discover whether Freenet is useful to them. If they find that it is,
> they should be encouraged to run a node and give something back to the
> network, *provided* that they have an OS that doesn't go down every 8
> hours, an ISP that lets them stay connected for more than 2 hours, and a
> high-bandwidth connection.
How will they use the client without running a (transient) node? Which
doesn't give its address out to other nodes anyway..
> (I'm not saying these criteria can or should be enforced, but there's
> such a thing a politely turning people away - ask Oskar to show you.)
>
> The idea of turning people down when they offer to run a node may sound
> elitist, but it seems like what Freenet needs right now is more
> stability, not more nodes at any cost. Several people have mentioned that
> they have multi-gigabyte nodes that aren't full. I suggest we stop
> encouraging casual users to run nodes until we really need the space.
The reason their nodes aren't filling up is because they're hitting
the limit on the number of entries in the store, while the total size
of those entries is less than their disk space limit. In 0.4 there
will be no arbitrary limit on the number of files in the store.
--
# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
# a continual flight from wonder."
# - Albert Einstein
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