Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[hemppah]

Quoting Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>:

> >>So the point of replication is that two systems always contain the same 
> >>information, although there may be problems with this if conflicting 
> >>updates have been made to the two systems (presumably used by different 
> >>people). As I said, we want more things than that.
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, partly true. Replication can happen between more than two systems
> (e.g. in
> > Notes) and the conflicting is a 'feature' of replication of the system
> > (implementation issue as in Notes ;). Furthermore, term 'replication' is
> widely
> > used also in p2p research community, so it's not tied only to server
> architectures.
> 
> It's used in a *completely different sense*, which is precisely one 
> reason why I'm so opposed to it. Replication in the p2p community means 
> mirroring for stability/accountability.

Hm, in what way *completely different sense* ? As far as I have understood, the
arcitecture is different to our case (client-server, p2p), but the goal remains
the same; merge different versions of data, where data can reside in
different locations, so that we all have exact/identical copies of data.

For p2p, indeed. I think term 'replication' is somehow misused. But, my point
was that term 'replication' is *not only used* in client-server environment.

> 
> >>I have not been able to find a definition of 'synchronization'...
> > 
> > Synchronization:
> > 
> >>From Cambridge International Dictionary of English:
> 
> Yeah, but none of these give the definition for our field, as far as I 
> can see (that's why I didn't quote them). The question is: What does 
> (data) synchronization mean in the computing field? Giving the 
> 'ordinary' definition is rather like giving 'twig, slip' as the 
> definition of 'clone' because that's the meaning of the Greek word 
> 'clone' stems from :-)

Perhaps we should some conclusions from it ?-) It's not used in our field, since
it's not appriate ;).

To be serious, term 'sync*' has a strong relationship to *time*, which on the
other hand, is not what we are interested in: "Now, because it's noon, we should
synchronize our all blocks, since our meeting starts in one hour". 

This is why I like term 'sync*' less than *repl'*.


-Hermanni


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