On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 17:10 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:32:18PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > i'm still not following why replica won't work? getting in underneath > > > the fs seems to require some extra justification and it seems to require > > > some very low-level modifications. and yet the file interface provides > > > what i think one would need for such a project. what is wrong with > > > replica that can't be reasonably fixed? > > > > I wish to enable mirrors of sourcesdump as well. Replica would do lots of > > extra work and transfer, vs. venti/copy -f, yes? > > what extra work would that be, and if there is extra work, could you explain > why this would be a problem?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of how pull works is that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /) which means that shared blocks get copied as many times as there are files sharing them. Thanks, Roman.
