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by unveiledwrath
30 Sep 2023 17:21
Forum: i2pd
Topic: Enabling floodfill--What it does?
Replies: 2
Views: 1674

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...
by unveiledwrath
30 Sep 2023 17:06
Forum: I2PSnark
Topic: Disable pre-allocation of storage space
Replies: 3
Views: 4406

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...