[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/02/15 13:50:27

Modified files:
        storm          : article.rst 

Log message:
        *WHY* we mention schemes

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.202&tr2=1.203&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.202 manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.203
--- manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.202 Sat Feb 15 13:48:36 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/article.rst       Sat Feb 15 13:50:26 2003
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@
 it would be possible to find both the document and links to it,
 no matter which peer in the network they are stored on.
 
-Version control systems like CVS or RCS [tichy85rcs]_ usually assume
+In a similar vein, 
+version control systems like CVS or RCS [tichy85rcs]_ generally assume
 a central server hosting a repository. The WebDAV/DeltaV protocols,
 designed for interoperability between version control systems, inherit
 this assumption [rfc2518-andalso-rfc3253]_. 
@@ -281,7 +282,7 @@
 ..  [ref: iris: http://iris.lcs.mit.edu/].
 
 During the last few years, there has been a lot of research
-related to peer-to-peer resource discovery, both in academy 
+related to peer-to-peer resource discovery, both in the academia 
 and in the industry [p2pworkinggroup]_.
 There are two main approaches: broadcasting 
[gnutellaurl-andalso-ripeanu02mappinggnutella-andalso-kazaaurl]_, 
 and distributed hashtables (DHTs) 
[stoica01chord-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-zhao01tapestry-andalso-rowston01pastry-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-malkhi02viceroy]_.
 Broadcasting systems
@@ -340,6 +341,8 @@
 downloaded? Iyer et al [iyer02squirrel]_ call the former approach
 a *home-store* and the latter a *directory* scheme (they call the peer
 responsible for a hashtable item its 'home node,' thus 'home-store').
+The choice between the schemes affects the scalability and reliability
+of the network.
 
 CFS [dabek01widearea]_ is a global peer-to-peer storage system. CFS is built 
upon the Chord DHT 
 peer-to-peer routing layer [stoica01chord]_. CFS stores data as blocks. 
However, CFS *splits* data