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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:22:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for Plan9
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> An alternate configuration, which takes more memory, but might offer
> a bit more in the way of survivability, would be to not use fs for venti. Instead,
> run one venti daemon per disk, with independent arenas/indexes. Insert a little
> Venti proxy between fossil and your daemons; it should try reads on each
> venti until one returns a block; it should issue writes to all of them.

why would that be more survivable?

- erik