Re: [Help-gnunet] few questions

[Christian Grothoff]

On Monday 08 January 2007 01:26, Fabian Holler wrote:
> >> * I want index a directory recursively, if I delete/add a file, the file
> >> should automatically indexed/removed from gnunet.
> >
> > You can index directories recursively (will happen automatically), but
> > add/delete changes are not yet supported.  This is another feature which
> > is already filed on Mantis and which will be worked on once we have the
> > time to do it.
>
> Am cronjob that will index my shared directorys peridocial should work?
> Or will this result in many duplicates in the network?:)

This would at duplicate the GNUnet directories -- how to reduce this kind of 
data duplication is for me the one of the key questions that needs an answer 
before this feature can be implemented.  Currently, there is a good chance 
that indexing the same directory with only marginally different files will 
result in a completely different GNUnet directory.  I'm looking for some 
mechanism that will allow updates to be more incremental (publishing the 
updates in a way that clients properly recognize them as updates can already 
be done with namespaces; how the GUI's should present update-chains to the 
user is another open question -- this second problem is similar to 
visualizing file histories in SVN or CVS, just with non-coders as the 
audience...).

Christian