An alternative that I have tried and it seems to work is to periodically retrieve your files. This helps make them "stick" in the network. When the file becomes sufficiently well known then you wouldn't need to keep periodically retrieving it.
On Friday 08 March 2002 08:21 am, you wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
