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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:58:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] simple venti demo:
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On Thu Aug 11 13:38:25 EDT 2011, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:28 AM, erik quanstrom
> <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>   this is the same
> > dillema any non content-addressed disk has.  performance
> > vs. safety.  and of course one size doesn't fit all, so there are knobs in
> > most disks to turn off write caching.
>
> it's not as obvious a tradeoff as it seems.

are you alluding to the fact that the client has no
way of doing a synchronize cache with the venti disk?

- erik