On Friday 24 Jan 2003 12:13 am, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > > - but it means you insert more data, and you > > > > have to decode it; it's not designed for such small chunks, but we > > > > know it can work with sizes close to that from work on streaming... > > > > The overheads on a 1kB CHK are significant (something like 200 > > > > bytes?), I'd use 4kB chunks, at least... > > > > > > Is this overhead included in the amount of space consumed? i.e. does > > > this mean that 1 KB file + 200 bytes of overhead => 2KB of storage? Or > > > is the overhead completely separate? > > > > Overhead is separate. The actual data content of the file is rounded up > > to the next power of 2. > > Oh, one thing. Data content includes metadata.
What do you refer to with metadata? Gordan _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
