On Wednesday 15 December 2010 19:04:11 Srivatsan Ravi wrote: > Hi > On a technical note, RAMBO maintains multiple active replica > configurations and hence i would think r/w is costly. > Etna (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.71.4911) > is a protocol that works over Chord DHT to provide atomic read writes > and is inspired from RAMBO as mentioned in the paper. This might give > some ideas w.r.t Freenet and also claims to work well with high > churns.
It would be interesting to consider the overheads (in terms of performance and storage capacity) and security requirements of actively maintaining N replicas via a DHT versus caching on usage... > > Kryptos > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 December 2010 08:01:48 Colten Jackson wrote: > >> Has anyone seen/read this? > >> > >> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Gilbert/rambo-journal3.pdf > >> > >> "In this paper, we present RAMBO, an algorithm for emulating a read/write > >> distributed shared memory in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment. RAMBO > >> provides a highly reliable, highly available service, even as participants > >> join, leave, and fail. In fact, the entire set of participants may change > >> during an execution, as the initial devices depart and are replaced > >> by a new set of devices. Even so, RAMBO ensures that data stored in the > >> distributed shared memory remains available and consistent." > >> > >> Hopefully some of the ideas in the paper can be helpful to freenet's goals. > >> > > And by reading them we expose ourselves to triple damages when we implement > > something similar and they sue us for patent infringement (versus > > implementing the same thing having thought of it ourselves). Great idea. > > What is our attitude to published literature and patents? IMHO anything MIT > > publishes that is useful there is a good chance it's patented... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devl mailing list > > Devl at freenetproject.org > > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101215/74cb1c5c/attachment.pgp>
