By your saying then that means the key is closest to the data source 
node then?

Evan Daniel wrote:
> 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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