Re: [9fans] Regarding venti block size

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

> > i guess i'm not up to speed yet.  what is the advantage
> > of supporting blocks of different sizes?
> >
> > - erik
>
> I am doing a part of a bigger project which involves splitting files
> into many pieces and storing them separately for security reasons. I
> thought of using each piece as a block of data to be stored on a venti
> server. But since the number of parts a file will be split into need
> to be constant the block size varies. But may be this is not the right
> way to do it. I am now re-considering splitting files into number of
> pieces = filesize/block size.

i ment that question to be aimed at
venti.

- erik