[Owncloud] Tahoe-LAFS

[Tobias Hunger]

On Monday, 19 July 2010 16:29:20 Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> Dear people of ownCloud:
> 
> I'm one of the developers and organizers of the Tahoe-LAFS project
> [1]. I strongly approve of the values of ownCloud, and I would like to
> suggest that you consider using Tahoe-LAFS as a component of it. I've
> looked over
> http://owncloud.org/index.php/Encrypted_File_Storage_Proposal_II and it
> seems to me that using Tahoe-LAFS would lend a head start
> towards those goals.

Dear person from Tahoe,

nice to know that somebody read the proposal:-) It is not endorsed by owncloud 
as far as I know, it basically is just my idea to attack the problems I see.

I have been studying the Tahoe-LAFS web pages last night and it is indeed a 
very interesting reading. Your documentation is way better than what most open 
source projects have, good work there!

So far I still stand by my proposal, but I think I'll at least update it in 
some places based on what I learned so far:-)

The resistance to servers vanishing is a interesting idea, even though I am 
not convinced that this is actually needed for the use cases I see. How big is 
the space overhead of a "3 out of 10" setup compared to just storing the files 
without any protection against parts of the server vanishing?

> We're about to announce Tahoe-LAFS v1.7.1 release. That would be a
> fine time for y'all to download it and try it out. :-)

I might actually end up doing that:-)

Thanks for pointing out your project!

Best Regards,
Tobias