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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:02:49 -0400
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] multiple venti servers
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:01:00AM -0700, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote:
> If I am right, one problem with this approach is it becomes tricky
> when both venti servers have updates but yet to be sync'ed. And, in
> particular, when there are identical data backed up (say, I downloaded
> a CD image in two machines and backed up in these two servers), it
> leaves two copies. It may be safe but it does leave two copies.

Writes presumably only go to the master.