FYI, sources and the wiki have been intermittently down most of the day (when I started typing this email the wiki was down, seems to be back up right now, but the web interface to sources is down now, and I have had trouble accessing sources over 9p all day).
uriel P.S.: Thanks to people in irc for reporting and confirming the issues. On 9/21/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 9/21/07, Richard Bilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Venti arenas stored on S3, with locally hosted indexes? > > > > You can't just throw a whole arena into an S3 file, since the S3 API > > doesn't support seeking within files. > > > > On the other hand, an S3 bucket is essentially a big hash table, and > > so is venti. So I opted for the simple approach of storing the blocks > > themselves in S3. Given that, a local index doesn't help much. A local > > bloom filter probably would help, but for now my server is stateless > > (aside from cache). > > > > Right now the server supports the basic venti api, but it falls over > > if anything goes wrong on the connection. Once I make it more robust, > > I'll put it in contrib for interested parties. > > I hadn't looked into this idea much beyond a moment of curiosity... Sounds > like you've thought it out quite a bit though :-) > > > once I get my plan 9 box back up and healthy (and possibly add to the ranks > in my home network) I'd be very interested in taking a look. > > Dave > >
