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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:11:05 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Regarding venti block size
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> I think you will need to rewrite both venti and the
> venti protocol to get around the 64k limit.
> I started to do this once and decided it was
> too large a change to bother.  If you don't care
> about coalescing duplicate blocks (and you
> don't seem to), why not use an extent-based
> file system instead?

i guess i'm not up to speed yet.  what is the advantage
of supporting blocks of different sizes?

- erik