On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Michael Yip<mhy831 at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Can someone explain to me what is logged in the file locations.log.txt? > > Here's my guess. It logs the location changes of my node and this > prevents my node from specializing in storing a subset of the keyspace? > I'm guessing this only happens in Darknet as it would decrease > performance... > > Am I correct?
Yes. On darknet, location churn should happen initially as a new node appears, but then slow down once it chooses an appropriate location relative to its peers. Interaction between location churn and store specialization is a cause for concern about long-term availability of data on darknets. On opennet nodes, topology is maintained by connection churn rather than location swaps. I recommend the papers Matthew suggested. There's also the wiki; see eg http://wiki.freenetproject.org/location There's not a lot on the wiki, but I'm slowly adding more; hopefully if you find things it doesn't answer you'll add to it... Evan Daniel
