Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of FAQ


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2010-06-27T15:44:54Z (14 years ago)
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zooko
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domain name change allmydata.org => tahoe-lafs.org

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  • FAQ

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    1 Q: What is special about Tahoe-LAFS? Why should anyone care about it instead of [http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects#OtherProjects other distributed storage systems]?
     1Q: What is special about Tahoe-LAFS? Why should anyone care about it instead of [http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects#OtherProjects other distributed storage systems]?
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    3 A1: Tahoe-LAFS is the first Free !Software/Open Source storage technology which offers ''provider-independent security''.  ''Provider-independent security'' means that the integrity and confidentiality of your files is guaranteed by mathematics computed on the client side, and is independent of the servers, which may be owned and operated by someone else.  To learn more, read [http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html our one-page explanation].
     3A1: Tahoe-LAFS is the first Free !Software/Open Source storage technology which offers ''provider-independent security''.  ''Provider-independent security'' means that the integrity and confidentiality of your files is guaranteed by mathematics computed on the client side, and is independent of the servers, which may be owned and operated by someone else.  To learn more, read [http://tahoe-lafs .org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html our one-page explanation].
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    55A2: Tahoe-LAFS is an extremely reliable, distributed, fault-tolerant storage system. Even if you do not need its security properties, you might want to use Tahoe-LAFS as a very robust and flexible storage platform. (Tahoe-LAFS's security features do an excellent job of staying out of your way when you don't need them.)
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    1515Q: Where should I look for current documentation about Tahoe's protocols?
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    17 A: http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/architecture.txt
     17A: http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/architecture.txt
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    1919Q: Does Tahoe-LAFS work on embedded devices such as a [http://www.pogoplug.com PogoPlug] or an [http://openwrt.org OpenWRT] router?
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    21 A: Probably! François Deppierraz contributes [http://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot/builders/FranXois%20lenny-armv5tel a buildbot] which shows that Tahoe-LAFS builds and all the unit tests pass on his QNAP TS-109 NAS box running under Debian Lenny.  There seems to be a lot of interest in this sort of deployment -- someone joins the mailing list and asks about this approximately every month (see [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/ the archives]).  Zandr Milewski [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-November/003157.html reported] that it took him only an hour to build, install, and test Tahoe-LAFS on a !PogoPlug.
     21A: Probably! François Deppierraz contributes [http://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot/builders/FranXois%20lenny-armv5tel a buildbot] which shows that Tahoe-LAFS builds and all the unit tests pass on his QNAP TS-109 NAS box running under Debian Lenny.  There seems to be a lot of interest in this sort of deployment -- someone joins the mailing list and asks about this approximately every month (see [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/ the archives]).  Zandr Milewski [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-November/003157.html reported] that it took him only an hour to build, install, and test Tahoe-LAFS on a !PogoPlug.
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    2323Q: Does Tahoe-LAFS work on Windows?