Tree chunker is a concrete implementation of data chunking.
Tree chunker is a concrete implementation of data chunking.
This chunker works in a simple way, it builds a tree out of the document so that each node either represents a chunk of real data or a chunk of data representing an branching non-leaf node of the tree. In particular each such non-leaf chunk will represent is a concatenation of the hash of its respective children. This scheme simultaneously guarantees data integrity as well as self addressing. Abstract nodes are transparent since their represented size component is strictly greater than their maximum data size, since they encode a subtree.
This chunker works in a simple way, it builds a tree out of the document so that each node either represents a chunk of real data or a chunk of data representing an branching non-leaf node of the tree. In particular each such non-leaf chunk will represent is a concatenation of the hash of its respective children. This scheme simultaneously guarantees data integrity as well as self addressing. Abstract nodes are transparent since their represented size component is strictly greater than their maximum data size, since they encode a subtree.