From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] file server speed
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:10:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd1c3cf7f156332dcd23891262f87059@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140717190129.81607B827@mail.bitblocks.com>
> So long as a server returns a block corresponding to its SHA1
> score, you (the client) don't care whether it is the same
> server you wrote the original block to or another (and you can
> always verify the returned block). This opens up some
but this isn't unique to content-addressed storage. as long
as the block contents are the same, normal block storage can
be served from anywhere.
> interesting choices. For instance, you can multicast each read
> or write or you can set up a hierarchy of servers and switch
> to another one (or even get different blocks from different
> instances). How the writes are handled/replicated.stored is
> entirely upto the server (cluster). Or you can implement a
> bittorrent like facility on top of venti (I call it bitventi
> or b20).
why not distributed hashing? distributed hashes have existing
fast implementations. venti does not.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-17 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-15 6:13 kokamoto
2014-07-15 13:02 ` Anthony Sorace
2014-07-15 16:30 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-07-15 16:56 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-16 0:04 ` kokamoto
2014-07-16 0:36 ` kokamoto
2014-07-16 17:26 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-16 14:23 ` Steven Stallion
2014-07-16 14:53 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-07-17 1:13 ` Steven Stallion
2014-07-17 17:13 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-07-17 21:44 ` cam
2014-07-16 17:41 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-16 23:15 ` kokamoto
2014-07-17 0:29 ` Steven Stallion
2014-07-17 0:31 ` Steven Stallion
2014-07-17 1:10 ` john francis lee
2014-07-17 1:09 ` john francis lee
2014-07-17 1:10 ` Bakul Shah
2014-07-17 16:56 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-17 18:14 ` Bakul Shah
2014-07-17 18:39 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-17 19:01 ` Bakul Shah
2014-07-17 19:10 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-07-17 19:26 ` Bakul Shah
2014-07-16 17:23 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-16 23:01 ` kokamoto
2014-07-17 17:03 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-18 16:50 ` hiro
2014-07-18 19:36 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-18 20:11 ` Bakul Shah
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