On 8/14/07, erik quanstrom <[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. > > > > this is always cited as the "killer functionality" of venti. essentially it > trades cpu time > for disk space. however, the couple of times where a concrete venti solution > was > discussed (seperating attachments into seperate files, e.g. for de-duping), > it was > deemed to be slower because attachments need to be split out to be recognized > as the same. (9fans.net/archive/2005/10 and 9fans.net/archive/2005/11/1).
I think Mechiel Lukkien GSoC project might be helpful with such issues, see http://gsoc.cat-v.org/people/mjl/blog//2007-08-06-1_Rabin_fingerprints uriel
