Hello, I see that the DHT translator doesn't cope well with node removal and additions (updating conf files on many servers) might be problematic. Also the only real method of "reliability" is with replication. So I got to thinking of how P2P networks use DHT to locate files and deal with node failure/removal/additions and wondering if any of the developers have ever considered implementing something like this - distributed tracker in p2p parlance. Another issue with the replication part is the fact that you have to fully duplicate the data on, ideally, more than 2 nodes which seems like a waste of space. Using something like erasure coding (think raid 5/6) could provide the reliability piece of this. I recently read an interesting paper on replication vs. erasure coding which seems to make sense. http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/pdf/erasure_iptps.pdf Has anyone considered anything like this? Would it even be possible, or am I completely missing the boat!? Frank Clements
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