[chord] block overwriting

Athicha Muthitacharoen athicha at lcs.mit.edu
Tue Jan 18 12:20:05 EST 2005


Hi Brian,

Apologies for the delayed response. I have not looked at chord mails 
in a while. 

What kind of block did you use to overwrite the value? Only 
DHASH_KEYHASH and DHASH_NOAUTH block types. Which application is 
using these mutable blocks? Or, which ones do you have in mind?

Athicha

Brian Badillo [bbadillo at vt.edu] wrote:
>Hi, I am a student using chord for a distributed systems project.
> 
>I was wondering if there was any way to overwrite a block written by 
>dhashclient at a certain key.
> 
>The MUD in the source tree seems to be able to do this.  From  my 
>understanding each room has a certain key 
>based on the room name, and when a new avatar enters the room, the entire room 
>is inserted again at the 
>same key and is presumably overwritten.   
>But when i retrieve a block that I have "overwritten" i still get the old 
>value.  Is there a way to overwrite or delete 
>blocks at a specified key.
> 
>-Brian Badillo 
>-Virginia Tech
>
>
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