On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This looks pretty interesting. I only heard about it a couple hours ago > and have been reading about it. It is a sort of peer to peer distributed > backup system relying on encryption and hashes etc. It isn't really > designed to be anonymous or uncensorable as far as I can tell but it > looks like it might be better in that area than just sending a copy of > the data somewhere else by traditional means. It does borrow a few ideas > from Freenet. > > I have long liked the idea of a sort of backup co-op where a bunch of > friends make available a certain amount of disk space and the system > makes sure a copy of their data exists in two other locations at all > times. This seems to be along those lines. > > http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html How does this differ from a global file system or something like google's distributed file sysytem? -Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
