Subj : Re: FInally hit a wall...
To   : deon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Dec 20 2024 10:00:45

-=> deon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 de> Have you heard of tahoe-lafs?

No, I haven't. Sounds interesting!

 de> I played with it a few years ago - and its design is perfect for this.

 de> It's effectively raid (or erasure coding) across unreliable targets.
 de> IE: Everybody provides capacity, and data stored is split, encrypted
 de> and erasure coded across everybody's drives (so no single person has a
 de> full file - and the data is encrypted anyway).

I'm thinking Pied Piper, now. :)

 de> If a node goes down, your data is still recoverable from other targets
 de> - upto the parity setting. IE: If you set parity to 3, then 3 systems
 de> can go offline and your data is still accessible.

That would be an interesting experiment, if a group of people got
together and offered x amount of disk space and bandwidth into a storage
pool.

 
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