[p2p-hackers] Re: Identify "defective" nodes

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:42:14PM -0500, Greg Bildson wrote:
> That would be extremely hard to do efficiently with the internal algorithms
> used to grab chunks of files.  If you don't want to redownload overlapping
> regions, you would have to control the internals of both algorithms very
> precisely.

Yes, true, it would also need to be able to tell the application "go
fetch this chunk" rather than letting the application choose.

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