[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/10 04:04:09

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        comment & tighten OS

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.186&tr2=1.187&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.186 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.187
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.186      Mon Nov 10 03:59:58 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Nov 10 04:04:08 2003
@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@
 a timestamp and a serial number.
 The most current heartbeat is obtained by sending a request
 to the primary replica [#consistencytime]_. 
-OceanStore is unique among the versioned P2P systems
-in that it implements non-destructive updates,
+OceanStore 
+implements non-destructive updates,
 allowing previous versions of documents to be accessed
 (by finding their old heartbeats through Tapestry).
 However, heartbeats are network-internal objects
@@ -345,13 +345,18 @@
 presented to the user. Therefore, even in OceanStore,
 a user cannot simply download a version of a file 
 and an associated heartbeat and store them on their
-harddisk to keep the version "alive."
+harddisk to keep the version "alive." Of course, the 
+very idea of Oceanstore is to make this unnecessary 
+by reliably archiving *everything*, but whether this
+will succeed remains to be seen. 
 
 .. [#consistencytime] Many applications
    are believed to be able to cope with looser consistency
    semantics; for example, the NFS client for OceanStore only requests
    new heartbeats less than 30 seconds old.
 
+..  is unique among the versioned P2P systems
+    in that it 
 
 Pointer records
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