Hey, Just sending a somewhat incoherent mail about my experiences so far. I've been playing around with Tahoe for a while and am very happy with it! Been running two storage nodes on my Alix 2d2 -- a neat little box with a AMD Geode 500Mhz CPU and a whopping 256MB of RAM. These two nodes have been my day to day backup solution the last couple of months and I absolutely love the solid feel of the software and the fact that I can easily access my files wherever I might be. Having only 256MB to play with and quite a bit of other stuff running on the box I'm also grateful that Tahoe doesn't gobble up a lot of memory,
As far as bandwidth is concerned I find that with a well lubricated ethernet cable and tailwind I get up to 1MB/s over the wire. In comparison, scp gives about 5MB/s with hardware AES acceleration enabled and 3MB/s without. A while back one of the drives crashed quite severely and the storage on that drive was completely lost. Being able to recover everything using the other drive was pretty awesome, I must say. Of course, now I'm trying to convince my friends to start some nodes :-) Just a note, I've found that raising the value of minimum_cycle_time in BucketCountingCrawler and LeaseCheckingCrawler give my drives more opportunities to sleep. Didn't find any other way of controlling this sleep time and perhaps it would be useful to others than me? Right now I'm trying to figure out a good way to run Unison synchronization over Tahoe, this would be very very useful to me. Perhaps somebody else has figured it out already? Oh and I agree completely with Kyle Markley's message a while ago concerning the wishlist. Especially with the backup halting on problems. I admit uttering one or two profanities while slowly creating an file suitable for --exclude-from :-) Cheers and thanks for the fine software! /Rob _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@allmydata.org http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
