[mnet-devel] progress implementing emergent networks

icepick icepick at icepick.info
Mon Sep 29 20:51:38 BST 2003


On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:12:19PM -0400, Zooko wrote:
> Myers reported (I think) that his twisted Chord network passes a unit test 
> where you start with two separate Chord networks and introduce one node from 
> the first net to one node from the other, and then the two nets merge.

This is slated on my metal TODO, but not done yet.  I'm still writing tests
to verify that the finger table is correctly formed, and that it's used. 

> I also wanted to mention that Chord can sometimes fail, too, if the nets 
> happen to line up so that the resulting merged Chord net is "loopy".  The 
> Liben-Nowell paper [1] explains how to fix that.

> [1] http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/553810.html


I will add this algo to the TODO list.

icepick


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