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Subject: Re: [9fans] s3venti
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:11:37 -0500
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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that's interesting. we initially considered that, but decided on
S3fs. , brucee has been working on it. we will use it to provide
archiving for rangboom users.

> I mentioned in passing some time ago that I was working on a venti
> server that uses Amazon S3 as a storage backend. There is now code in
> /n/sources/contrib/rcbilson/s3venti . Beware sharp edges. I have
> pumped a fair amount of test data through it successfully, but I
> wouldn't recommend trusting anything important to it yet. There is a
> man page.
>
> I started writing it under plan9, but for irrelevant reasons later
> switched to plan9port, so that's where it's known to work (on Linux,
> at least). I would hope and expect that moving it back to native plan9
> would be a small job.
>
> Questions and comments are welcome.