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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:58:39 -0500
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti arenas question.
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:54:52PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> The Setting up a Venti document on the Wiki mentions concatenating lots
> of smaller arenas into a single large log space.  Okay, if I have a big
> disk (say, a couple of mirrored 150GB IDE drives), why would I want to
> split my log space up into small arenas?  Would it be easier to just
> create a single, really big arena and not worry about smaller ones?
> I'm sure there's a logical answer, but I'm not aware of what it is.

Well for one, so you can copy small pieces off onto DVDs.