> why not do this at a level below the fs. venti is write once. so > after a fossil dump, the skinny on the arena offsets and the score > of the superblock (or whatever fossil calls it) could be relayed > to the mirror site which could pull (or be pushed) the updated > arena(s). recover (or whatever fossil calls it) the mirror fossil > from the new superblock and you're done.
That makes a lot of sense. How practical is it? At minimum, there would have to be a dedicated Venti to isolate "contrib" from other sections, plus the arenas would be large: not everyone has broadband access. What would be beneficial, but I understand how hard it would be to change to it, is if contributors restricted their offering to small source files rather than large binary objects, specially compressed ones that probably affect the Venti archive negatively as well. But maybe I'm missing more than I'm aware of, I'd like to hear different takes on this. ++L
