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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst
From: |
Benja Fallenstein |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2003 07:09:49 -0500 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Branch:
Changes by: Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden> 03/11/10 07:09:48
Modified files:
pointers : article.rst
Log message:
twid block model section
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.216&tr2=1.217&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.216
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.217
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.216 Mon Nov 10 07:01:35 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst Mon Nov 10 07:09:48 2003
@@ -446,8 +446,8 @@
it merely provides a common API for the hash-based addressing
and content-based search present in many existing P2P systems
(although allowing files to be found by specific properties
-of their content is made much easier to implement, using
-a plug-in architecture).
+of their content is made much easier to implement
+through a plug-in architecture).
.. [#] For STORage Module. Storm is also the name of our
Free Software implementation, discussed in
@@ -471,25 +471,25 @@
which index blocks by properties of their content
rather than by hash. Reverse indices examine each
block in a local data store and return hashtable keys
- under which this block should be found.
+ under which this block should be retrievable.
For example, an index of Ogg Vorbis audio blocks running
on an artist's Web server could return each word
occuring in the album and title fields of each song.
The server would publish the resulting mappings
- from words to block ids on the P2P network.
+ from words to blocks on the P2P network.
The pointer functionality is trivial to implement
*on top of* this basic model. A pointer record
is simply a block with a special MIME type. A pointer record index
is used to publish the mapping from pointer ids
-to the block ids of pointer records. [#]_
+to pointer records. [#]_
.. [#] It may be useful, though, to implement an optimization
in the P2P network that optionally only returns
the most current record, not all records, to make
loading pages with many past versions more efficient.
-The Storm model is *simple to implement* on top existing
+The Storm model is *simple to implement* using existing
P2P overlays. It allows *simple synchronization*
between mirrors, consisting of only copying all blocks
available on only one of the hosts to the other host.
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst,
Benja Fallenstein <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10