Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Ken Corson wrote:
>> Does this matter? When should my specialization begin to occur
>> (timewise, bit-wise/traffic, percent of datastore filled...) ?
>
>Well, something to consider is:  Are we sure nodes really need to 
>specialize, as things are?  Maybe there's a lot more disk space out there 
>than there is stuff to fill it?  In that case, there'd be little need to 
>dump old stuff, and specialization wouldn't be as apparent.

This is possible.  For example, if there is some supernode out there
with great bandwidth and tons of disk space, it might simply store
everything and everyone would route straight to it for every key.  In
that case there would be no specialization at all.

theo


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