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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:49:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
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> What do you mean by "apply changes"? Each venti has a set of
> blocks corresponding to vac hierarchies. Each vac hierarchy
> has a single parent. Retrieving the missing blocks reachable
> from a hierarchy of interest to you is all that is needed.

you can put anything in venti.  they don't need to be vac
heirarchies.

> Some level of smartness in how block traversal is made needs to
> be there. I would also like to have an agent close to the actual
> server hosting venti archive being able to do things on my behalf
> and only sending the results back (e.g. traversing the hierarchies
> only to determine that certain things are not needed is painful
> over the network). Plus there has to be a security mechanism that
> would not allow me to request random blocks, unless I'm authorized.

after adding the needed features, what would the advantage
be over replica?

- erik