[chord] block overwriting

[Athicha Muthitacharoen]

I see. What you actually want is block deletion, not mutable blocks.
DHash fragments immutable blocks and spreads them on many nodes. Does your 
delete_immutable_object call delete all of the fragments? Also, if 
the node membership of DHash is dynamic, it might be impossible to find all 
the fragments and delete them.

Athicha

Brian Badillo [bbadillo at vt.edu] wrote:
>Don't worry.  I've fixed my problem.
>
>I wanted to overwrite blocks using DHASH, but DHASH would not do this.  I 
>ended up adding a call to delete_immutable_object in the DHASH code and 
>recompiling.  This worked like I needed it too.
>
>Thanks anyways
>
>Brian
>
>>===== Original Message From Athicha Muthitacharoen <athicha at lcs.mit.edu> 
>=====
>>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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