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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:24:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for Plan9
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> Venti deals with incompletely written blocks; the arenas and index structures
> are still workable. The situation is even recoverable - a proxy could notice
> that one of the backends failed to return a read, so it rewrite the data from
> an other copy (which it can verify) to the failed one.

what are you using as a venti proxy?  or is this more theoretical?

how do you protect against lossage in the fossil cache?

- erik