> I think the answer to your question is that N is the size of the > identifier space, not the number of nodes. At least it clearly says so in > the paper I cited on Symmetric Replication. Therefore you do not need to > know the number of nodes.
That is indeed the case for the Symmetric Replication and most of replication schemes I've seen. But that was actually the reason of my question : the successor placement scheme I mentioned makes use of *the number of peers in the network*. Julien. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
