From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti by another name
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:55:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7871fcf50902141755p67d9ab9di6844f0a949d3fd8e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4996E472.5010905@proweb.co.uk>
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM, matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:
> It's a P2P system where data blocks are traded not files.
>
> A file becomes a set of blocks and if requested, anyone who has the block
> can supply the data, even if they don't possess the same file.
Sounds vaguely like Freenet.
—Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-15 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 15:34 matt
2009-02-14 17:40 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-02-15 1:55 ` Joel C. Salomon [this message]
2009-02-16 5:37 ` Eris Discordia
2009-02-16 12:13 ` matt
2009-02-16 14:42 ` Eris Discordia
2009-02-25 0:26 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-02-25 1:05 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-25 3:56 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-02-25 4:29 ` lucio
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