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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:18:16 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
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> Some level of smartness in how block traversal is made needs to
> be there.

That involves partitioning, which defeats the fundamental mechanics of
venti.  It then becomes preferable to run distinct venti services,
which is the only way in which different backing stores can be used at
this stage.  And as far as I can establish there is no way of
specifying distinct venti archives to a single fossil server, so now
you also need distinct fossils.  Feasible, of course, but a bit _too_
distributed to be practical.

++L