[ndnSIM] [Nfd-dev] NFD Development - Content Store

[Lixia Zhang]

> On Jan 8, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Dave Oran (oran) <oran at cisco.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 8, 2015, at 8:09 AM, Lixia Zhang <lixia at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 8, 2015, at 1:39 AM, L.Zeynalvand <zeynalvand at ce.sharif.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thank you Alex,
>>> Actually my thesis is decentralized social networking using named data, in which people's private social content is hosted right from their homes, having a part of the content store persistent is crucial for me. I'll work on the NFD code and let you know the results.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> -- 
>>> Leonid Zeynalvand
>>> M.Sc Information Technology
>>> Sharif University of Technology
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>> Personally I would suggest you look into ndn repo for persistent storage
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> I think there are two independent capabilities here:
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> 1. A “repo” as a robust storage service to applications who want to be able to go quiet or stop running without the authoritative published data under their control becoming inaccessible.
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> 2. A performance/robustness feature of a cache such that its content survive a disruption due to a power failure, reboot, etc.
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> We tend to use the term “persistent storage" for both of these - I would argue they are conceptually different but could be achieved by similar or the same storage service features used by the NDN software. 
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> DaveO.

you are absolutely right that these are two separate issues.

>From Leonid's msg, I just guessed that he might meant a managed storage service, i.e. your first one. But I should have clarified, thanks for pointing out.

Lixia