[chord] redundancy in Chord

[Emil Sit]

On Fri, 18 May 2007 at 01:49 (-0400), Durga Prasad Pandey wrote:
> Is there a paper describing DHash specifically, with details also of  
> the maintenance protocols?

The NSDI 06 paper is probably your best reference.

> I'm interested in building a prototype of networked computers for  
> storing code and configuration for medical devices. When a medical  
> device is plugged into a computer, the computer would query the  
> device for its serial number and class ID and then go out to the  
> network computers and obtain code/configuration stored on them. It  
> looks like Chord can be used to look up where that information is,  
> quickly, and DHash can do the actual maintenance of the files.

That sounds interesting.  Why is a peer-to-peer solution preferable to a
centrally managed server for this application? 

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