Folks: You know that video about "Don't Shout At Your Hard Drives"? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 ) Here's my variant of it: don't smash one of your hard drives to bits with an axe.
I presented Tahoe-LAFS (http://allmydata.org ) at CodeCon last weekend. CodeCon's prime directive is that every presentation has to have a live demo of working code, and that the presenter has to be an author of that code. For my demo, I leaned an axe against the speaker's podium, strapped safety goggles around my neck, and then I showed three laptops on stage, each running a Tahoe node, and then uploaded a movie file to the Tahoe grid made up of those three nodes. (This means the file gets automatically encrypted, digitally signed, and erasure-coded.) Then I explained that after uploading your movie to the Tahoe grid, you might turn off your Tahoe node and go away. And while you are gone, something BAD might happen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbIwH7gz7o :-) Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the victim laptop wasn't running solaris. It was running an ancient version of Linux that was installed many years ago. The tahoe project maintains a buildbot running on Nexenta ("GNU/OpenSolaris" :-)), which is how we know that we didn't accidentally break the behavior of this user-space storage tool when it is used on Solaris. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
