GridDistribute

I will be answering questions about my disseration on 16th, June. I will work hard for the answering, including PowerPoint Presentation, the design and implementation internals of the GridDistribute system, etc.

As announced in 20040429163636.911BB114DF@beastie.frontfree.net, we finally, have to accept the fact that pyxis_gk is leaving the development team due to lack of time and interest.

I am planning to have a commit storm on GridDistribute’s source tree. This will happen in the following steps:

An interesting conversation in FreeBSDChina’s core:

delphij -> yarshure: I need some help on qmail
yarshure -> delphij: alu is qmail guru
delphij (continue the conversation with alu and finally solved the problem)

The idea of our (Grid Distribute) access control’s design is somewhat simple one. To maintain maximum security, it turns out that we must keep the directory highly consistent, to prevent ACL distribution problems.

The “Distribution Set” is an important idea on GridDistribute’s vendor distribution. Here comes different ideas on implementing it, which will influence the search approach we will choose. Personally, I think we must have a final decision before next Wednesday.

This is a complex problem. A peer to peer system consists many self-determinating nodes is hard to control, and when it goes crazy, it will be easy to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

Here are some of my thoughts, well, they are not mature and some of them might be misleading, but I will write them here.