From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:23:53 -0800 From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" In-reply-to: <9a63c93df5a89a64717985c05542b85a@quanstro.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1234304633.4957.169.camel@goose.sun.com> References: <9a63c93df5a89a64717985c05542b85a@quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e0341b8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 17:10 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:32:18PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > 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? > > > > I wish to enable mirrors of sourcesdump as well. Replica would do lots of > > extra work and transfer, vs. venti/copy -f, yes? > > what extra work would that be, and if there is extra work, could you explain > why this would be a problem? Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of how pull works is that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /) which means that shared blocks get copied as many times as there are files sharing them. Thanks, Roman.