On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:51:47PM -0800, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote:
> since replica requires some (albeit automatic) periodic work on the
> server end it means that there's one more thing for bell lab folks
> to care about and maintain. that said, a brand new Venti proxy or
> what not will probably be even worse for them :-(

Under the proposed scheme, clients and maybe mirrors, not sources, run the
new proxy.  Sources runs only a venti and venti/ro, unmodified, to allow
clients and mirrors to fetch blocks, and auth/none vac.  Is this unreasonable?

--nwf;