Hi.
I apologize in advance if this has been already discussed, but I have some
ideas about persistent data storage.
Freenet could optionaly manage a local data store which is controlled by
the user and files are not automaticaly deleted from it. In that way
these files wil never disappear from freent, at least one copy will
always be available. It can spread again to other nodes when it will become
popular again. It will not be lost for ever.
That data store could use files existing already on the disk, it could be
only an index to files that exists somewhere on the hard drive.
For example:
I have some music files in a directory and want to publish them in
freenet. So I insert all the files to freenet and create a web page with
link to that files. I could reinsert the index page every day it is not
a problem, but reinserting all the files again is too time consuming.
But that files are still on my disk, so freenet could use them when my
node gets a request. They will always be available without reinserting them,
and still be available for me for normal use.
In that way my node can have much more files that the size of datastore.
Users which use other file sharing programs could insert files from shared
directories to freenet and keep them available to freenet and whatever they
are using. In that way total size of freenet could be greatly increased.
I cannot see any disadvantages of that method.
Would it be possible, that users which downloaded the file could keep it
in the persistent datasotore? I do not know if it will be possible to ensure
that the file was not modified.
Is this possible? Are there any potential problems with that solution?
Roman Bednarek
_______________________________________________
freenet-tech mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
