Hi Tony, On 22/08/11 08:19, Tony Arcieri wrote: > In the meantime, for those of you who have linked me papers describing > similar systems, do you think any of these systems could potentially > have the properties I'm describing, i.e. do you think they have the > requisite ingredients to be the world-scale singular peer-to-peer > distributed filesystem that all of humanity could share?
To be honest, I think you're asking the wrong question. It's a question I've also spent a long time asking, but it's the wrong one. Unfair resource allocation isn't what's preventing a global p2p filesystem from existing. If you want to know what's actually standing in the way of a global p2p filesystem, try to persuade your technically minded friends to use Tahoe (or Freenet, or OceanStore, or CFS, or PAST, or FARSITE) for sharing files. Make a note of the problems they run into and solve them all. Repeat the process with your less technically minded friends. Once you've solved all their problems, open some champagne because you've achieved more than a decade's worth of p2p research. ;-) After that, if your system's running into resource shortages, try displaying the contribution ratio in the corner of the screen with a polite reminder that higher ratios help to support the community. ;-) Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
