[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/02/05 20:42:22

Modified files:
        storm          : article.rst 

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        twid

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http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.99&tr2=1.100&r1=text&r2=text

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Index: manuscripts/storm/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.99 manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.100
--- manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.99  Wed Feb  5 20:29:30 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/article.rst       Wed Feb  5 20:42:22 2003
@@ -103,24 +103,20 @@
 
 In this paper, we present Storm (for *storage module*), a design 
 dealing with these issues. Storm is a library
-for storing and retrieving data as immutable
+for storing and retrieving data as *blocks*, immutable
 byte sequences identified by cryptographic content hashes
-[ref ht'02 paper], unifying the namespaces of
-private data and documents published on the Internet by
-using the same identifiers for both. Storm provides services
-for versioned data and Xanalogical storage [ref].
+[ref ht'02 paper]. Storm provides services
+for versioned data and Xanalogical storage [ref],
+built on top of blocks.
 The Storm design, a hypermedia system built to make use
 of the emerging peer-to-peer search technologies,
 is the main contribution of this paper.
 
 Currently, Storm is partially implemented as a part of the Gzz 
 project [ref], which uses Storm exclusively for all disk storage.
-Gzz provides a general platform for building hypermedia applications upon.
-On top of Storm, we have built a system for storing mutable, versioned data
-and an implementation of Xanalogical storage [ref].
-
-Our current implementation has been used for local disk storage
-and with a central repository. The peer-to-peer functionality
+Gzz is an implementation of Ted Nelson's zzstructure [ref],
+providing a platform for hypermedia-aware applications.
+The peer-to-peer functionality
 is in a very early stage and not usable yet.
 
 .. [General figure of Storm, i.e. application layer, storm layer, 
@@ -141,7 +137,7 @@
 
 This paper is structured as follows. In the next section, we describe 
 related work. In section 3, we introduce the basic storage unit of our 
-system, file-like blocks of data identified by cryptographic hashes. 
+system, file-like blocks identified by cryptographic hashes. 
 In section 4, we discuss our implementation of Xanalogical storage 
 on top of the block system. In section 5, we discuss application-specific 
 reverse indexing of blocks by their content, essential for many applications.