The document (well ian's pdf copy....) describes that I "describe FASD, a fault-tolerant adaptive, scalable, distributed search engine inspired by Freenet and designed with Freenet in mind. "
I think the deletes (culling) of metadata a problem. First "whenever a node suspects that 'data' no longer exists". should be more specific (after a "404 error"?) wouldn't this in effect create a lot of culling floods for impopular data? Suppose by a LRU method both metadata and data would be out of the network. Now however some node finds the metadata but fails to find the data. what would network wise be more efficient: just drop the metadata or engage a protocol to delete a key across a lot of nodes? My feeling is that this would create a lot of trafic that would only result in propangation of data that is impopular. Since popular metadata for impopular data would have a lot of effect on the distibution of that data this will make it impossible to destroy this data. This is positive for the survivabilty of the data but clashes with the limited resources of the entire network. This sound a lot like "instead of deleting data in nodes store send it to the neighbour". Just my 2 cents. Maarten. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
