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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:41:21 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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FYI, sources and the wiki have been intermittently down most of the
day (when I started typing this email the wiki was down, seems to be
back up right now, but the web interface to sources is down now, and I
have had trouble accessing sources over 9p all day).

uriel

P.S.: Thanks to people in irc for reporting and confirming the issues.

On 9/21/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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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
>
>