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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/syncing/efficiency.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/syncing/efficiency.mdwn index 192dd6ecb..09bcc11b6 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/syncing/efficiency.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/syncing/efficiency.mdwn @@ -74,21 +74,4 @@ cloud for a while. ## syncing only requested content -In some situations, nodes only want particular files, and not everything. -(Or don't have the bandwidth to get everything.) A way to handle this, -that should work in a fully ad-hoc, offline distributed network, -suggested by Vincenzo Tozzi: - -* Nodes generate a request for a specific file they want, committed - to git somewhere. -* This request has a TTL (of eg 3). -* When syncing, copy the requests that a node has, and decrease their TTL - by 1. Requests with a TTL of 0 have timed out and are not copied. - (So, requests are stored in git, but on eg, per-node branches.) -* Only copy content to nodes that have a request for it (either one - originating with them, or one they copied from another node). -* Each request indicates the requesting node, so once no nodes have an - active request for a particular file, it's ok to drop it from the - transfer nodes (honoring numcopies etc of course). - -A simulation of a network using this method is in [[simroutes.hs]] +See [[adhoc_routing]] |