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- 30 Sep 2023 17:21
- Forum: i2pd
- Topic: Enabling floodfill--What it does?
- Replies: 2
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Re: Enabling floodfill--What it does?
When you're floodfill you participate in storing LeaseSets (destination addresses basically). Essentially on top of relying bandwidth you also participate in securing network consensus. I believe it requires a bit more CPU and bandwidth. Your bandwidth should be fine, I think you should enable it. A...
- 30 Sep 2023 17:06
- Forum: I2PSnark
- Topic: Disable pre-allocation of storage space
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4334
Re: Disable pre-allocation of storage space
I had the same question: Why does I2PSnark allocate the files I want to skip? Isn't that wasteful? It actually doesn't waste any space. Let me explain. I looked at the code and did some testing. Turns out it allocates what's called a sparse file. That's a file filled with all zeroes. Modern, and I u...