Re: Distributed file system using routing inspired by Freenet

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 17:20, Michael Rogers 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.

Well, there *are* ways we could do that...
> 
> >> 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?

Yeah, that doesn't work. And detecting uptime is difficult on opennet anyway - 
you have to rely on what they tell you because of churn.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael

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