'consistent' and 'atomic' are not words usually used to describe DHT operations (nor any truly decentralized algorithms that I know of, at least not where you assume that some portion of the nodes may be misbehaving or malicious). But you can get something close, using quorum decisions, for example. You can build these over Chord-style or Kademlia-style DHTs, but you might find the latter much more straightforward.
For example, in Kademlia, the source is directly in charge of all the PUTs, and likewise the GETs. So it is a simple matter to query all N replicas, see what value the majority return, and then use that as your 'consistent' value. Alen _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
