Re: Namespace partitioning using Locality Sensitive Hashing

2010-03-01 Thread Ketan Dixit
Collins wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Ketan Dixit wrote: >> Hello, >> Thank you Konstantin and  Allen for your reply. The information >> provided really helped to improve my understanding. >> However I still have few questions. >> How Symlinks/ soft link

Re: Namespace partitioning using Locality Sensitive Hashing

2010-03-01 Thread Ketan Dixit
> "size" > may have different meanings (like number of files, or space occupied by the > files, or number of blocks). > A good hash function need to conform to some equal partitioning requirement. > Function from Example 2 would be considered bad in this sense, while E

Namespace partitioning using Locality Sensitive Hashing

2010-03-01 Thread Ketan Dixit
Hi, I am a graduate student in Computer Science department at SUNY Stony Brook. I am thinking of doing a project on Hadoop for my course "Cloud Computing" conducted by Prof. Radu Sion. While going through the links of the "Yahoo open source projects for students" page I found the idea "Research o