Re: Distributed file system using routing inspired by Freenet

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Juiceman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Michael Rogers <m.rogers-kecf2yCh/[email protected]> 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