Quoth wb.kl...@gmail.com: > Noam is right in most of his text. Well of course, I'm me, what do you expect? :D
> But I have to add that the following sentence should be taken with some grain > of salt. Everything should be taken with at least one grain of salt, preferably more; salt is essential to taste! > > If the index is on a separate drive, though - e.g. index on SSD, data on > > HDDs - mirrorarenas can be used to keep the arenas in sync between multiple > > (sets of) HDDs, so that if one fails, venti can use the working drive while > > continuing to use the index on the SSD. > > You are better off putting the arenas on SSD, not the index, if you don't > want to stress your SSD. Of course, index on SSD looks good at 1st sight for > performance, but the buckets have to be rewritten and reordered at each > addition . ... venti's entire index sync logic is horrifying, to be quite honest. > > If you want the performance gain, and have enough main memory , you should > better try my mventi (which uses standard arenas and no index file). -> see > other thread i'm unsure which thread you're talking about; can you link me to more info on mventi? I've been working on a better venti implementation as well [1], and it'd be nice to have another reference :) [1] https://git.sr.ht/~pixelherodev/neoventi ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tca0eb0fbb2404e31-M85e24fbe45432b086eddb924 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
