On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:25:08AM -0400, Michael Werneke wrote:
http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html
How does this differ from a global file system or something like
google's distributed file sysytem?
Probably mostly in being decentralized, and emphasizing privacy and
authenticity more.
Most distributed filesystems are trying to make better use of bandwidth by
distributing the loading down. Usually, the FS attempts to migrate the
data to be near where it is being used. Tahoe doesn't appear to have any
intent on being fast, since the data will always be widley distributed.
GFS is basically trying to store a copy of the web, and the application is
Google's index. Tahoe is more about storing a much smaller amount of data
in a very reliable manner.
David
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