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diff --git a/docs/glossary.md b/docs/glossary.md index 71d3014..050a885 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.md +++ b/docs/glossary.md @@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ closest by round-trip time first. **relay**: in a partial mesh, a node announces new heads to its neighbours, which pull the changes they lack. +**eager link** and **lazy link**: over a lazy link, changes are announced and pulled +(the relay); over an eager one, a neighbour gets them as sync messages as soon as the +other end applies them. A pull that brought changes makes a link eager in that +direction, changes that came first another way make it lazy again (Plumtree's GRAFT and +PRUNE). + **blob**: bytes too large for one message, fetched in chunks from several peers at once: an epoch's snapshot change (for a rejoining node) or a remake's content (for voters). |