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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas for gc on venti
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:57:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080618205727.GB14826@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d39497d76feddcee629a4ea8c7af63d9@quanstro.net>

* erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

> it makes sense for the storage managment function to present an
> idealized block device while hiding details like disk replacement
> and redundency.

Well, I intend to make venti the storage device itself
(eg. in form on an hw appliance ;-P). At this point an special
venti could make hw RAID obsolete and also do things like bad
block handling.

RAID has some disadvantages, eg. you have to nail-down partition
sizes and it's not trivial to resize or move around volumes.
A venti-based system (which maybe presents an block device via
venti) can make runtime configuration much easier.


cu
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-18 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-18 19:35 Enrico Weigelt
2008-06-18 20:16 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-18 20:50   ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-06-18 20:32 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] ` <d39497d76feddcee629a4ea8c7af63d9@quanstro.net>
2008-06-18 20:57   ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2008-06-18 21:29     ` Bakul Shah
2008-06-18 22:37       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-06-18 22:54         ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-19 12:46     ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-19 14:20       ` a
2008-06-19 14:33         ` erik quanstrom

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