Re: [Help-gnunet] INDIRECTION_TABLE_SIZE and download speed

[Tracy R Reed]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:13:44PM -0500, Christian Grothoff spake thusly:
> Well, files are always downloaded to where the user specifies they should go. 
> The idea why I took the final location also came from the fact that if you 
> resume a download later (by re-issueing the gnunet-download command), we 
> would use the 'corrupted' file as a starting point -- that's also why it is 
> not removed. 

I think they should be downloaded into a tmp dir and then moved to where
the user specifies they should go. Otherwise I think people are going to
accidentally insert incomplete files (like I did) if we don't carefully
keep the unfinished files separate from everything else.

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