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Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2009 19:27:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
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> venti really doesn't
> care what you store.

OK, enough agreement :-)

The issue is that to provide any level of privacy to venti is
impossible, it needs to be done at a higher layer.  I think the
original request was for sources to be replicated at the venti block
level, something that could have been done had it been set up with its
own venti "partition", but cannot be done with the current
configuration.

There were some tangential issues, but I think the fundamental issue
was that in comparison with ZFS (about which I know only that some of
my less fortunate Linux/NetBSD colleagues are very fond of it) venti
lacked the ability to provide block level security.  But I do not
recall the details and I think Roman is the one who needs to recap
this discussion and bring it to a conclusion.

++L