Re: Distributed file system using routing inspired by Freenet

On Thursday 10 April 2008 06:40, Colin Davis wrote:
> Just another stupid question from the perspective of a user- Is there a 
> reason why the number of redundant FEC blocks isn't be user-configurable?
> 
> "How redundant do you want your data to be? The more-redundant you 
> specify, the slower it will be to insert, but the more resilient the 
> data will be to network damage"
> Faster Inserts -------------------[]------More Reliable Data
> 
> Users who want their data better propagated are likely to submit it to 
> multiple nodes anyway, increasing the total number of blocks.. But this 
> may end up having 3 copies of block A, and none of block B C D, so it 
> can't heal the file.
> 
> It just seems like any freenet-ettique behavior needs to be enforced by 
> the other clients observing behavior, rather than the original client 
> being trusted to do the right thing, or only insert in a certain way.

If we make it configurable, everyone will increase it, and because everyone 
has increased it, everyone will increase it some more. This is what happened 
on 0.3 with HTL, which is one reason we have configurable HTL any more.

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