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