Hi Francois

>>- One of the fuse filesystems in contrib/
>
> IIRC the one which currently works the best is impl_c.

That is the only one I got up and running with a few modifications ... ;-)

>>- The sftpd frontend together with the fuse-based sshfs
>>- The ftpd frontend together with the fuse-based curlftpfs
>
> You probably won't notice a big performance  difference between these two 
> because there're using the same interface to tahoe. Well, except perhaps a 
> little overhead incurred by the additional crypto stuff used for sftp.
>
> Please note though that your benchmark will certainly lead to bad results for 
> certain POSIX operations like seek(). Tahoe doesn't currently support seeking 
> through immutable files without first downloading the content of the file 
> until the position you're seeking to.
>
> You'll probably be better by using tahoe as an HTTP-accessible distributed 
> filesystem similar to Amazon S3 than as a standard POSIX filesystem to you 
> can mount on your machine.
>
> Obviously you can also use any other frontends such as the standard CLI or 
> those listed on the wiki.

I use the Postmark benchmark, which needs a POSIX interface, so I have
no other option in that area. In my project, I also test the Wuala
system and their interface uses a local cache to improve performance.
Maybe this is something Tahoe can consider too?

Kind Regards and thanks a lot for your help

Thomas
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