On 8/30/06, William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
> Writes presumably only go to the master.
>
Plus, if writes went only to the master & you had two machines backing up
the same thing to the same venti server, it wouldn't be a problem because
the sha1 has would be the same & thus venti wouldn't store it. So it should
be:
 clients -> master venti -> backup cloud of ventii.


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