> Some level of smartness in how block traversal is made needs to > be there.
That involves partitioning, which defeats the fundamental mechanics of venti. It then becomes preferable to run distinct venti services, which is the only way in which different backing stores can be used at this stage. And as far as I can establish there is no way of specifying distinct venti archives to a single fossil server, so now you also need distinct fossils. Feasible, of course, but a bit _too_ distributed to be practical. ++L
