On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Tiago Vignatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if the majority of peers are full it means we are really in trouble? > > BTW, I'm failing to see some p2p simulator that deals with the capacity > of disk in each peer. Anyone already seen such one? It's kinda strange > that no one bothers with disk capacity in DHTs...
This is one reason why building a generic block-store directly on top of a DHT is usually a bad idea. DHTs seem best suited for storing metadata and other small amounts of information, which can then be used to access and store larger amounts, using some other mechanism for fairly distributing and storing the real data. In fact, I can't think of a widely deployed successful DHT that doesn't align with this description. Of course, metadata storage can still be exhausted on a node, but I think Jim's above explanation addresses that nicely. Alen _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
