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Distributed file sharing (see [[P2P Filesharing]] - '''These are applications which allow real-time sharing of content with other user's that are also on at the same time; however, this content does not 'live' on the peer network after a certain user that is sharing this content leaves the network. It does not 'persist' over time.''' Examples of this kind of network are Napster and Gnutella. | Distributed file sharing (see [[P2P Filesharing]] ) - '''These are applications which allow real-time sharing of content with other user's that are also on at the same time; however, this content does not 'live' on the peer network after a certain user that is sharing this content leaves the network. It does not 'persist' over time.''' Examples of this kind of network are Napster and Gnutella. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:12, 10 April 2007
Definition
From the Info Anarchy article at http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Distributed_file_storage
"What is distributed file storage?
There are two broad categories of peer to peer applications:
Distributed file sharing (see P2P Filesharing ) - These are applications which allow real-time sharing of content with other user's that are also on at the same time; however, this content does not 'live' on the peer network after a certain user that is sharing this content leaves the network. It does not 'persist' over time. Examples of this kind of network are Napster and Gnutella.
Distributed file storage - These are a newer class of peer to peer applications where the peer network actually looks and feels like 'a giant hard-drive in the sky'. Files are saved into this 'space', and persist there even after the original peer that performed the insert has left the network.
(http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Distributed_file_storage)
Examples
See the list of examples here