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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  8 Jun 2014 03:56:24 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Question about fossil
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> - try this out on a small scale before you commit to it, as I
>   suspect you'll run into various limits and may be bugs. Do
>   report what you discover.
> - performance will likely be poor. For better performance you
>   may want to keep venti index on a separate (flash) disk.
> - it would be nice if you can come up with a workable setup
>   for a venti server!

usb performance is ~4-7MB/s.  this is the best you can hope for
from the disk.  venti will only slow this down by multiplying
disk accesses and being a bit seeky.  keep in mind if you're
using this for a venti server, that usb b/w needs to be shared
with tcp.

- erik