[chord] help with dhash...

Vijay Gopalakrishnan gvijay at cs.umd.edu
Fri Aug 20 15:04:21 EDT 2004


Frank,
Thanks for answering my questions.

> > I would really like to have the ability to delete entries because in the
> > long run, I plan to try to use this setup as a distributed dictionary.
> >
>
> One possiblity might be to cause blocks to be automatically deleted
> after a fixed amount of time. The inserter would then be required to
> periodically refresh the blocks it wished to stay in the system.

This is good enough for my needs. Is there any mechanism already in place
that will enable me to do this? Or if I have to implement this, I would
appreciate pointers to where I should start off from.

Thanks,
Vijay



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