On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 17:13 -0500, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:51:47PM -0800, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > > since replica requires some (albeit automatic) periodic work on the > > server end it means that there's one more thing for bell lab folks > > to care about and maintain. that said, a brand new Venti proxy or > > what not will probably be even worse for them :-( > > Under the proposed scheme, clients and maybe mirrors, not sources, run the > new proxy. Sources runs only a venti and venti/ro, unmodified, to allow > clients and mirrors to fetch blocks, and auth/none vac. Is this unreasonable?
It would be completely reasonable (and I wager *less* work for bell labs folks than keeping an eye on replica) if that venti was only hosting blocks coming from sources. As far as I know that's not the case. Thanks, Roman.
