Re: [Dibs-discussion] Congrats & some problems

[Christian S. <dib...@cs...>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:13:48PM -0400, Emin Martinian wrote:
> Christian Stork <dib...@cs...> writes:
...
> > In the above example of 10 peers with redundancy 2 and kbPerFile = 1MB
> > the result would be that all files smaller than 1MB are "redundanized"
> > (better word?) to three equal-sized copies and these three copies/pieces
> > are randomly distributed on different hosts.  Furthermore, each of these
> > copies suffices to reconstruct the file.  Is this correct?
> 
> Yes.

What's your benefit of using Solomon-Reed then?  Three regular copies
would do, wouldn't they?

I completely agree with everything else you said.

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