[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/11/10 07:09:48

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        twid block model section

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.216&tr2=1.217&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.216 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.217
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.216      Mon Nov 10 07:01:35 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Nov 10 07:09:48 2003
@@ -446,8 +446,8 @@
 it merely provides a common API for the hash-based addressing
 and content-based search present in many existing P2P systems
 (although allowing files to be found by specific properties
-of their content is made much easier to implement, using 
-a plug-in architecture).
+of their content is made much easier to implement
+through a plug-in architecture).
 
 .. [#] For STORage Module. Storm is also the name of our
    Free Software implementation, discussed in
@@ -471,25 +471,25 @@
     which index blocks by properties of their content
     rather than by hash. Reverse indices examine each
     block in a local data store and return hashtable keys
-    under which this block should be found. 
+    under which this block should be retrievable. 
     For example, an index of Ogg Vorbis audio blocks running 
     on an artist's Web server could return each word
     occuring in the album and title fields of each song.
     The server would publish the resulting mappings
-    from words to block ids on the P2P network.
+    from words to blocks on the P2P network.
 
 The pointer functionality is trivial to implement
 *on top of* this basic model. A pointer record
 is simply a block with a special MIME type. A pointer record index
 is used to publish the mapping from pointer ids
-to the block ids of pointer records. [#]_
+to pointer records. [#]_
 
 .. [#] It may be useful, though, to implement an optimization
    in the P2P network that optionally only returns
    the most current record, not all records, to make
    loading pages with many past versions more efficient.
 
-The Storm model is *simple to implement* on top existing
+The Storm model is *simple to implement* using existing
 P2P overlays. It allows *simple synchronization*
 between mirrors, consisting of only copying all blocks
 available on only one of the hosts to the other host.