Quoth [email protected]: > Quoth [email protected]: > > Allow me to disagree. Arenas are, mostly, append-only. Index is > > write-random. > > Once a disk is full, there are no updates that can be done. Venti simply can't > produce enough writes to wear out an index on the same disk. You run out of > disk space first. > And an index on a separate disk is disposable; you can replace the disk and > generate a new index with no data loss.
Basically this. Either you have the index on the same disk as the arenas, and the arenas _will_ cause more wear; or, you have it on a separate disk, and that disk can be treated as consumable. I'm thinking about how to make it easy to build the index on startup into a ramdisk, but this is not a priority right now. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4d8ba4236feb5d92-M095a9f4ff18ea569dd602fe7 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
