From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:41:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60709210741y5938ec86vf1c55cf4288fdf46@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <676c3c4f0709210718v59962c8cyac3796a35ac04a1d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/21/07, Richard Bilson <rcbilson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Venti arenas stored on S3, with locally hosted indexes?
>
> You can't just throw a whole arena into an S3 file, since the S3 API
> doesn't support seeking within files.
>
> On the other hand, an S3 bucket is essentially a big hash table, and
> so is venti. So I opted for the simple approach of storing the blocks
> themselves in S3. Given that, a local index doesn't help much. A local
> bloom filter probably would help, but for now my server is stateless
> (aside from cache).
>
> Right now the server supports the basic venti api, but it falls over
> if anything goes wrong on the connection. Once I make it more robust,
> I'll put it in contrib for interested parties.
I hadn't looked into this idea much beyond a moment of curiosity... Sounds
like you've thought it out quite a bit though :-)
once I get my plan 9 box back up and healthy (and possibly add to the ranks
in my home network) I'd be very interested in taking a look.
Dave
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 18:02 Iruata Souza
2007-09-20 18:54 ` geoff
2007-09-20 21:34 ` David Leimbach
2007-09-20 22:40 ` Richard Bilson
2007-09-21 13:55 ` David Leimbach
2007-09-21 14:18 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-09-21 14:18 ` Richard Bilson
2007-09-21 14:41 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2007-09-23 18:41 ` Uriel
2007-09-23 19:48 ` geoff
2007-09-20 21:46 ` Iruata Souza
2007-09-20 23:58 ` geoff
2007-09-21 0:05 ` Iruata Souza
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2003-11-16 3:55 David Presotto
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