Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:32 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > I again propose that sources should be mirrorable via venti (and venti/copy
> > -f); the nightly snapshots would be walked with "auth/none vac" into a
> > publically readable venti (venti/ro proxy) and the scores published (and
> > signed).  In order to make this more palatable, it may be worth developing a
> > venti proxy that attempts to pull blocks from closer ventis rather than
> > further ones and to make sources' public venti artificially further away
> > (induce a delay of half a second or something per Tread).  I've some
> > tentative writeup on https://wiki.ietfng.org/pub/Plan9/VentiMirror and even
> > some code flying locally but nothing about which to be proud.
>
> i'm still not following why replica won't work?  getting in underneath
> the fs seems to require some extra justification and it seems to require
> some very low-level modifications.  and yet the file interface provides
> what i think one would need for such a project.  what is wrong with
> replica that can't be reasonably fixed?

since replica requires some (albeit automatic) periodic work on the
server end it means that there's one more thing for bell lab folks
to care about and maintain. that said, a brand new Venti proxy or
what not will probably be even worse for them :-(

Thanks,
Roman.