On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Michael Yip<mhy831 at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Wait, is there a difference between fetching the key and fetching the data?

No, just imprecise terminology.  You start with the key and fetch the
data it refers to.

Evan Daniel

>
> Evan Daniel wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Michael Yip<mhy831 at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> But then how come the routing is done by choosing the node whose
>>> location offers shortest distance to the key?
>>>
>>
>> Because that's how you find the key. ?Keys are expected to be stored
>> near their location, so you look for them near their location.
>>
>> Evan Daniel
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Martin Scheffler wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am Freitag, 28. August 2009 08:48:09 schrieb Michael Yip:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a simple question:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does it mean that the key would be closest to the location of the data
>>>>> source node?
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> no, the key is determined by the content.
>>>> the routing tries to push the data into the right direction where it can
>>>> be
>>>> found later.
>>>> all the keys that the source node inserts are going different ways.
>>>> if your node is neighbour of the source node you will only see some keys
>>>> from
>>>> the insert which are in your keyspace.
>>>> and even when your "cancer nodes" dominate the routing table of the
>>>> source
>>>> node, you can't know the content until you have the URI to access it.
>>>>
>>>> good byte
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