From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:52:14 -0500
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Of course, but the beauty of Venti is the ease with which it provides
the hooks you need to address such issues.  Replication, mirroring,
load balancing, all those things are made trivial by the realization that
a hash is a universal address space.

-rob