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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