[p2p-hackers] DHT or unstructured?

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:34:19PM -0500, Hailong Cai wrote:
> A.  DHT will succeed and unstructured systems will die
> B.  Unstructured systems will continue growing and DHTs will fade away.
> C.  They will merge into one.
> D.  They will coexist but with different applications.  For example,
> unstructured systems for file sharing, and DHTs for distributed storage
> system. 

I expect them to coexist, sometimes for different applications, but
sometimes with both in use for the same application.

Notably, one of the largest file sharing networks (eDonkey/eMule with
5 million simultaneous users) is DHT-based, though I don't see the
unstructured systems vanishing from sight (Gnutella has grown by a
factor of 5 in the last year).

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon