> - try this out on a small scale before you commit to it, as I > suspect you'll run into various limits and may be bugs. Do > report what you discover. > - performance will likely be poor. For better performance you > may want to keep venti index on a separate (flash) disk. > - it would be nice if you can come up with a workable setup > for a venti server!
usb performance is ~4-7MB/s. this is the best you can hope for from the disk. venti will only slow this down by multiplying disk accesses and being a bit seeky. keep in mind if you're using this for a venti server, that usb b/w needs to be shared with tcp. - erik
