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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by baybal2 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:07AM (#17303770)
The amount of p2p-ness in it is not any much more than that of any DFS of previous decade.

The P2P slang though is freaking everywhere here. There are P2P bank and P2P brand sausages.

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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by justinsaccount on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:21AM (#17303926)
Not quite, this is not a "distributed file system" this is a "file distribution system".

This is more along the lines of https://github.com/lg/murder

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