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From: Martin C.Atkins <martin@parvat.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, a@9srv.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti ports and productization
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:44:51 +0530
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:37:01 -0400 a@9srv.net wrote:
> a few times someone (ehg?) has talked about work
> being done to get venti working on other OSs, and
>...

Well, perhaps now is a good time to own up! (Sorry for the
delay in responding, but we had to write a web-page first!)

I have been working on a re-implementation of Venti - initially for
Linux, but it should be easy to port the core functionality to other
Unix-like platforms, and eventually to Windows (I suppose...).

This is not a port of Venti, but a rewrite from scratch - I have not
seen/got the Venti source, although I have read the paper, and the
man pages. I'm using the same basic ideas of Venti, but also making a
number of different technical tradeoffs. Some of these trade-offs
still need to be validated in practice (I'm working on it! :-).

Before some of you get too excited - it isn't protocol-compatible
with Venti (at least, I don't think it is! That would be
too much of a coincidence! (see above) :-)

Our goal is to release this as a shareware-style product, hopefully
this year, for a price that would be consistent with your
$100/machine.

I hadn't put a Mac OS X version high on the agenda - should I
reconsider? :-)

See
	http://www.parvat.com/products/eternal
for more information.

Martin

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