[chord] A question about chord

[Emil Sit]

On Wed, 06 January 2010 at 19:24 (+0800), qiufei230 wrote:
> I am studying souce code of MIT chord,but confronted some problem.I don't understand Vnode(maybe virtual node),every physical node enter the DHT network,why allocate some vnodes for physical node.And what's the usage of vnode?Does it have some relation with finger table?Hope for you reply sincerely!

This is discussed in detail in the original Chord paper; it has to
do with achieving load balance.

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Emil Sit / MIT CSAIL PDOS / http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/