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Date: Mon,  9 Jun 2014 17:15:39 -0700
From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Question about fossil
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> With the trick I am talking about, there is nothing to stop
> you from connecting to N different remote ventis.=A0 In effect
> your local (by that I mean under your control, not necessarily
> on the same machine) venti can be treated as just a buffer!
=20
I took a look at some things along those lines a few years
back in the context of file systems aimed at laptops where
the buffer allowed for operation when disconnected from
the main server.  It wasn't strictly tied to venti as a back-end.
There's a paper on it in the proceedings from IWP9 '09.

http://4e.iwp9.org/papers/lapfs.pdf

It would be interesting to build the same sort of thing in
the fossil-venti connection rather than in the 9P path.

BLS