Josh, you are doing good job with sharing those files, including sharing via HTTP. Thanks for all contribution so far! One suggestion though: No one thinks about individual files, we normally operate in whole sets. It will be better if you just list complete sets that you have and share. For example I see that you have KPPPKP, so you can just list it like this, which means you have all files in it. I see that you don't have the whole KBBKNP, so perhaps no need to mention it at all.. There are too many files in 6-men egtb, and it's already hard as it is. It is more easy to operate with just complete sets.
guyhaw wrote:1) I imagine that Kirill has compiled his statistics about the availability (sharedness) of the EGTs manually - showing whether an EGT can be found with 0, 1, 3 or 10 sources.
Yes, all availability information is gathered manually. I simply run eMule search (Global servers) sometimes, when I have time, and see how many sources there are. It means that it can't be 100% correct, often there are more or less sources than stated on the web-page. Anyway, it gives some idea about what sets are spread already.
guyhaw wrote:Clearly, if one could specify a set of files one was interested in and call on an 'agent' to automatically search-out the plurality of sources, this woudl be better. As KK says, he would then prioritise the rarer EGTs first.
I already have all common ones, so all remaining sets are rare.
Anyway, if anyone will automate this task it will be a great help for this project, and it will save lot of my time.
guyhaw wrote:2) Secondly, I imagine that the EGTs downloaded are not all being retained in the shareable space but having to be backup up to tertiary storage. The p2p idea could be extended to allow people to signal what EGTs are in their teritary storage, available to be brought back to shareable storage, if there was demand.
HM.... sounds good but I have no time to work on implementing it. Probably someone handy with PHP/SQL could write it in a day.. Alternatively: we can set up a wiki site, where we list all sets. Everyone will come and put his name near the sets that he has. How about it?
guyhaw wrote:The same system would also track 'demand', and somehow the requirements for not-quite-shareable files and the promotion of those files by their sources could be brought together. There are already incentive systems built into p2p: the more you share, the higher your priority etc.
I remember Vincent was complaining that eMule owns his machine, and he suggested to write a fresh new p2p app, just for tablebase exchange. It would have integrated check for correctness, and track the online / offline files, and many more things. Great idea, the only tiny problem - someone has to write the program.
If we need simple and practical solution fast, then I'd say simply set up a wiki page where we all state what we have, even offline. Then we will know whom to bug for missing sets, etc..