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Re: [Mldonkey-users] feature suggestion: forward error correction
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Christian Brandt |
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Re: [Mldonkey-users] feature suggestion: forward error correction |
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Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:45:45 +0200 |
Am Mittwoch, 4. September 2002 13:20 schrieben Sie:
> So why would we want to do this? We have checksums per block and can
> detect errors and redownload the block. So FEC isn't realy needed you
> might think.
This idea sounds interesting, but why would this be helpfull?
Uncompletable Files are uncompletable because there is no longer a
complete Copy of the file available. You can't remove that fact by using
FEC, you would rather need an upload-technique which speeds up sending of
rare chunks. But even then you couldn't avoid incomplete files.
To implement an "everything is complete" one must force the operator of a
client to keep data on his drive. But drivespace is a limited resource and
I think its not a donkeys mission to occupie other people resources based
on complicated assumptions which haven't to do much with "the real thing":
Bandwidth-Utilization.
But then I am just a happy user and not Swamp or mldonkey ;-)
--
Christian Brandt
life is short and in most cases it ends with death
but my tombstone will carry the hiscore