> Not directly related to the topic here, but this has always bugged me > about running Venti on mirrored or raided disks. > > When a block on a mirrored pair doesn't match the block on its > partner, the mirroring layer has no idea which one is right, but Venti > does. Some way to export this read failure to it and give it a chance > to decide which block to pick would be pretty neat.
it's even neater to use a raid level that doesn't require venti intervention. does venti even keep scores on the bloom filter blocks and the icache? - erik
