Getting ready for release

Author: Frank Dabek

AUTHORS

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+This software was developed at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
+in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group.
+
+The following people contributed to this implementation:
+
+Frans Kaashoek (Chord, DHash)
+Frank Dabek (Chord, DHash, chordcd)
+Josh Cates (chordcd)
+Ion Stoica (sim)
+
+In addition, much of the initial chordcd implementation is based on
+the SFSRO file system which was implemented by Kevin Fu, David
+Mazieries and Frans Kaashoek.
+
+The authors may be contacted at chord@pdos.lcs.mit.edu.
+
+

COPYING

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+Copyright (c) 2000 Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, 
+    		   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+
+Copyright (c) 2001 Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, Joshua Cates,
+		   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

COPYRIGHT

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+Copyright (c) 2000 Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, 
+    		   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+
+Copyright (c) 2001 Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, Joshua Cates,
+		   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

README

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+This repository is an experimental implementation of the Chord lookup
+service and the cooperative file system (CFS). The software is
+organized as follows:
+
+chord/ 
+
+   - This directory implements the core of the chord lookup
+service. libchord.a implements the API defined in chord.h to maintain
+routing tables, add/remove nodes from the network, route simple
+queries. libchord also provides a node-to-node RPC service based on
+SFS asynchronous RPC.
+
+dhash/
+
+   - DHash depends on chord and builds a replicated block store on the
+basic Chord primitive.
+
+lsd/
+
+   - lsd is the Location Service Daemon. It instantiates the Chord and
+DHash layers and accepts requests from clients over a UNIX domain
+socket.
+
+chordcd/
+
+   - chordcd is the SFS client daemon for CFS. It is run as a slave
+process of sfscd and acts as an NFS server to provide a loopback file
+system interface to clients. chordcd and sfsrodb are based on similiar
+tools in the SFSRO distribution.
+
+sfsrodb/
+
+   - sfsrodb publishes a filesystem into the CFS network. Because
+sfsrodb is so closely related to a similiar tool in the SFS
+distribution, it is distributed under the GPL rather than the MIT
+license (as the remainder of this project is).
+
+devel/
+
+   - testing and performance tools
+
+sim/
+
+   - a Chord simulator
+
+svc/
+
+   - protocol files for the above programs
+
+
+This software is experimental and under active development. Please
+send bug reports/fixes to chorddev@pdos.lcs.mit.edu.