Are these (funcational) definitions written up somewhere on the wiki/docs anywhere?
This seems increasingly important given the growing interest in Tahoe and its featureset/audience. Terrell On 11/30/09 7:56 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > On Monday, 2009-11-30, at 17:16 , tahoe-lafs wrote: > >> * keywords: test ARM => test ARM reliability > > David-Sarah: what do you mean by the tag "reliability"? We use the > tags 'confidentiality' and 'integrity' to mean issues which could > lead to information leakage or corruption respectively. > > I would like to have a keyword to mean "This issue could lead to data > loss." (not just data availability, and not integrity). What shall > we name that one? How about "survivability". Yeah, I like that. I > formerly used "reliability" for that purpose, but "reliability" is > more general. Note that in this context "survivability" will mean > survival of the *data*, not of the network. So, for example, a bug > which caused all nodes to lock up would compromise availability, but > it would not be marked as a "survivability" bug, because the data > would still be there and could eventually be recovered. > > Now, what do you mean by the tag 'reliability'? > > Regards, > > Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
