Comment Re:napster's paranoia is interesting.. (Score 1) 207
Actually, the first query is to split the load across multiple servers.
Linking servers is an interesting issue that can't be handled by the IRC protocol: you have thousands of people logging in and out, each providing a list of files with attributes, and you want to be able to search across all of the files available? Not a chance, unless you have some *really fast* indexing capability, and you manage to transfer *lots* of data between your servers.
Don't assume napster is just like IRC, just because the linux client looks like IRC. There are a lot of other issues.
Evan,
realizing he may sound unfriendly but isn't intending to.
Linking servers is an interesting issue that can't be handled by the IRC protocol: you have thousands of people logging in and out, each providing a list of files with attributes, and you want to be able to search across all of the files available? Not a chance, unless you have some *really fast* indexing capability, and you manage to transfer *lots* of data between your servers.
Don't assume napster is just like IRC, just because the linux client looks like IRC. There are a lot of other issues.
Evan,
realizing he may sound unfriendly but isn't intending to.
