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/
> 

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