On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:31 AM, David Barrett wrote:
True, but there's something to be said for real simplicity versus
"simplicity through encapsulation".
This is an excellent point.
For example, I buy the mathematical argument that FEC across 8
strangers' machines is more reliable than whole-file replication
across 4 buddies.
That depends on the strangers (and on the buddies).
For the record, what the Allmydata-Tahoe project currently offers is
FEC across 8 machines owned by buddies. (Or other numbers of
machines, of course.)
This has the disadvantage of requiring erasure-decoding to
reconstruct your files (possibly ameliorated by the fact that the
algorithm is published and the implementation open sourced), but the
advantage that you have to upload and store only a small,
configurable amount of redundant data instead of 8 X.
Regards,
Zooko
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