Re: [Gzz] 11th (hh)

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:22:24PM +0100, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> 
> Hi Hermanni,
> 
> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> >-DSHT (distributed sloppy hash table). Anyone aware of this ? This method 
> >should
> >solve hotspot problem related to DHTs (could solve other issues also).
> >
> 
> No, but I've read what you've forwarded. Sounds good, but my instinct is 
> to wait until more people are working on it before thinking too much 
> about it ;-)

Exactly. Hemppah: remember that when using non-peer-reviewed sources, there
are a great deal of "brilliant" inventions that, on closer inspection,
are not quite so brilliant.

Even in peer-reviewed stuff, there are "great inventions" that get no second
mention in the literature, because there's something wrong with them.

Be very careful about what you trust.

> Preliminarily: I think DSHTs are obviously great for getting data by its 
> hash. 

"Obviously": I'd not go even as far as that; I'd say they are something which
does need to be examined but whether they're great will be seen later.

> I'm not sure yet about distributed indexing, which is also 
> important; for example, in Gzz, we need a "find all links to and 
> transclusions of this piece of data" query. Here, it does not suffice to 
> find a single link/transclusion; we need to find all. DSHTs will 
> probably not help here.

Yes. We have some quite interesting problems...

        Tuomas