> venti really doesn't > care what you store. OK, enough agreement :-)
The issue is that to provide any level of privacy to venti is impossible, it needs to be done at a higher layer. I think the original request was for sources to be replicated at the venti block level, something that could have been done had it been set up with its own venti "partition", but cannot be done with the current configuration. There were some tangential issues, but I think the fundamental issue was that in comparison with ZFS (about which I know only that some of my less fortunate Linux/NetBSD colleagues are very fond of it) venti lacked the ability to provide block level security. But I do not recall the details and I think Roman is the one who needs to recap this discussion and bring it to a conclusion. ++L
