On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Juiceman <juiceman69 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> > wrote: > > On Apr 9 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > Well the problem is what to do with single blocks... A frost post is an > > > SSK plus usually a CHK for example. If a splitfile is inserted as a CHK, > > > there will be a single top level block for the CHK. Granted these are > > > more popular than the splitfile blocks... > > > > Ah, I see what you mean, the top level can't be FECed because we don't > want > > to have to use several keys to identify the file. > > > > > > >> Good point, I guess it's a waste of bandwidth to store data on a > > >> transient node. > > > > > >But how would we implement that? > > > > Don't send inserts to, or accept inserts from, peers unless they've been > > active for x of the last y hours? But I reckon it would annoy people to be > > told that they couldn't post a Frost message because their node wasn't > > reliable enough, it would cause the store to fill up even more slowly, and > > might it also have implications for anonymity? > > Also, remember one of the target audience for Freenet is dissidents or > someone with important whistle blower information that needs to be > released anonymously. Can we expect these folks to run a node for > several hours just to publish data? >
But they won't insert large files, would they? How about limiting the insertion rate? We can do this on inserter's node. Regards, Daniel Cheng
