Re: [Help-gnunet] New to gnunet

[Benjamin Kay]

On Sunday 11 April 2004 05:33 pm, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
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> > Right, that's definitely a nice feature.  Nevertheless, don't expect
> > something similar to show up in GNUnet anytime soon (I would not mind a
> > sound patch that achieves something similar, but I don't think anyone
> > with the necessary expertise is currently working on this, so don't get
> > your hopes up).
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> But why not add it to the TODO list?

FEC does help keep files on the network, but it comes with its own set of 
cons. Like nearly doubling the time it would take to insert/index a file. And 
how many blocks will gnunet-download try to get - all of them, or just enough 
to reconstruct the file? It seems to me (and I'm definitely not an expert) 
that FEC will eat more bandwith and cpu than it's worth when the problem of 
missing blocks can be avoided by responsible node operators 
reindexing/reinserting files that they've downloaded and would like to see 
remain on the network.

If FEC does wind up in GNUnet (which would not be all bad ;-) I'd like to see 
it as an option and not a requirement.