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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Regarding venti block size
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:03:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0902160903o74a45d3eha973cb768b64927a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63884bcf-d00e-470e-b931-7e5be3f7bce8@g38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>

> The problem is that I was planning on keeping the number of parts is
> fixed. So depending on the file size, the part size will vary. And
> therefore sometimes the (part  block) that I store will be more than
> the current upper limit of 64k.
>
> It would be great if you could let me know your thoughts on this.

I think you will need to rewrite both venti and the
venti protocol to get around the 64k limit.
I started to do this once and decided it was
too large a change to bother.  If you don't care
about coalescing duplicate blocks (and you
don't seem to), why not use an extent-based
file system instead?

Russ


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-16 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-16 10:25 anooop.anooop
2009-02-16 11:52 ` matt
2009-02-16 14:16   ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-16 14:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-16 15:56 ` anooop.anooop
2009-02-16 16:17   ` matt
2009-02-16 17:03   ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-02-16 17:11     ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-16 17:17 ` roger peppe
2009-02-16 17:28 ` anooop.anooop
2009-02-16 19:08   ` lucio
2009-02-16 19:24     ` ron minnich
2009-02-17  9:53     ` anooop.anooop
2009-02-17  0:17   ` matt
2009-02-17  9:53 ` anooop.anooop
     [not found] ` <2c60577b-edf1-4f3c-bdd9-d8b1b2859a5b@x38g2000yqj.googlegroups.co>
2009-02-17 13:38   ` erik quanstrom

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