Re: [GNUnet-developers] Idea for file storage in GNUnet

2012-12-06 Thread LRN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Answer: Because it disturbs the logical flow of communication. Question: Why so many people think that top-posting is bad? On 07.12.2012 7:28, hypothesys wrote: > I understand (or at least believe I do) your point about the > available storage not bei

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Idea for file storage in GNUnet

2012-12-06 Thread hypothesys
Dear Christian, First of all thank you for your reply. Yes, in a nutshell that was the idea. Although I did not know what was necessary to accomplish it, it undoubtedly would be a difficult task (now I see its difficulty borders on the impossible). As for the possibility you proposed of using "no

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Idea for file storage in GNUnet

2012-12-06 Thread Christian Grothoff
Dear hypothesis, Thank you for your suggestion. Let me first describe how I understood your idea. Basically, the idea is that GNUnet's file storage should not occupy disk space, but leave it marked in the OS file system as "free" (presumably because of redundancy, loss is not an issue). Then

[GNUnet-developers] Idea for file storage in GNUnet

2012-12-06 Thread hypothesys
Hello GNUnet Developers, First of all I apologize if this is not the correct place for discussing a possible new feature to GNUnet and since I am not from the IT field I cannot even attempt to implement it. Still, perhaps if you find this feature valuable you would consider implementing it so I w