SqueakMap (was Re: [ANN] Cash For Documentation project)

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Thu Sep 5 13:57:35 UTC 2002


"PhiHo Hoang" <phiho.hoang at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Finally, it will not be "gnutella" like because if I am not mistaken,
> > gnutella can not guarantee that you see "everything". I would instead
> > opt to have clients being able to send updates to the master. Much
> 
>     And if the master is down, no one sees nothing ;-)

No, mirrors can be set up with no effort so that is not a problem.
And the readonly client map can of course still be used even if you are
offline or the master is offline.
It simply can't be updated. In fact, a client map can double as a master
mirror.

>     Anyway, there are supernodes (always on sites) acting as caches.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     PhiHo.

Cheers, Göran



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