On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:22:42AM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > > From: fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [Tech] Re: [freenet-dev] tying freesites together with jars > > > > Consider my freesite for a moment: > > > > jaymz@chuckie:~$ du fishland -sh > > 6.7M fishland > > > > you probably want (assuming you wanted to read fishland, which you don't, > > but lets pretend) maybe 100k of that at any given time, unless you're > > actully reading through the archives. > > I discarded the request when I first saw it as well, but now I'm thinking > about it a bit more. I'm wondering if perhaps Freenet should work on a > more generic system for split files that includes combined files? If a > site has fifteen 4k pages (60k uncompressed) and five small images (100k > total?) and a few large images (200k each), would it not be possible, > theoretically, to insert them as chunks? > > Compress a 60k JAR of HTML to 6k and insert it. Then, retrieving any of > the HTML pages gets you all of them. > Insert the small images that appear on more than one page as a group > again, which may be 150k or so, and insert it so that retrieving any of > those common images gets you all of them for the site. All this is good. We just have to implement <ZIP key>//<file in ZIP>, and all of this becomes possible. > Insert the large images individually, possibly as split files (which If they're big. > should be handled, IMHO, much more transparently, or via a JAVA applet). What would a java applet gain over what we do now?
We can't make splitfiles much more transparent, except maybe for really small ones, unless/until we can stream them rather better. > > My $0.02. > -- > Michael T. Babcock > CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) > http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ > -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03 http://freenetproject.org/
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