From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45219fb00602060955o4cf10e2et@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:55:45 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Llu=EDs_Batlle?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti and the hash / public key in plan9 In-Reply-To: <43E78970.3020501@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43E78970.3020501@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f4cad49c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Haha :) Thanks. I got it. It's hard for me to not to write code for handling those low-priority cases. If the probability is such low, I understand. :) on the other hand... is the block size (write/read block size) fixed (to 8k?) in Venti? I feel like I read somewhere in the Venti paper that that block size is of length chooseable from the application. (I'm not English native, so I hardly would say that I understand clearly an explanation in English. :) 2006/2/6, Ronald G Minnich : > uriel@cat-v.org wrote: > > > I think I heard someone quote Rob as saying something like: "lower > > than the probability that all the atoms in one half of the universe > > would get up all at the same time and move to the other side of the > > universe" > > right, but lest we lose track, don't forget the importance of the hash > you pick. You could pick one with considerably higher probability. > > Here's one: odd parity. > > Of course, calling that a 'hash' is probably not justifiable :-) > > ron > > p.s. Of course, believers in homeopathy might not believe in Venti, not > sure. >