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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:38:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Regarding venti block size
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> > 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