On Sun Aug 12 23:35:45 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> how about mounting venti-backed fossil files from a linux as an AoE drives?
> vblade on sources exports the plan 9 file and the aoe driver for linux
> does the mounting.
>
> Venti would be compressing and condensing duplicated blocks to a single block.
> I'm not sure if same files are boundaried in same manner to each other though.
we are going to do this with kenfs and aoe. our main filesystem is going to
look
something like
cm0f{(m1m2m3)e99.0e100.1}
where e99.0 will be a local shelf and 100.1 will be remote. there is no
compression,
but only changed blocks are dumped and kenfs doesn't really care how long the
dump takes.
- erik
