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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:10:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back
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> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:32:18PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > i'm still not following why replica won't work?  getting in underneath
> > the fs seems to require some extra justification and it seems to require
> > some very low-level modifications.  and yet the file interface provides
> > what i think one would need for such a project.  what is wrong with
> > replica that can't be reasonably fixed?
>
> I wish to enable mirrors of sourcesdump as well.  Replica would do lots of
> extra work and transfer, vs. venti/copy -f, yes?

what extra work would that be, and if there is extra work, could you explain
why this would be a problem?

- erik