The common three out of ten must survive is probably at least partly from:<div><a href="http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground/">http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground/</a></div><div>where they use three of ten shares to recover.  Never underestimate a non-technical illustration conveying technical information to users.  That's one reason the logo is so important.  People will search for meaning in everything they see in the first 30 seconds of being on the site and assume a bunch of things.</div>
<div><br clear="all">Randall Mason</div><div><a href="mailto:ClashTheBunny@gmail.com">ClashTheBunny@gmail.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:44 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org">david-sarah@jacaranda.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 24/10/11 17:53, Dirk Loss wrote:<br>
> On 24.10.11 18:06, Shawn Willden wrote:<br>
>> One comment, though: Â Under the default parameters, it's 7 out of 10<br>
>> that can fail, not 3 out of 10.<br>
><br>
> Oh yes, of course. My bad. :(<br>
<br>
</div>Actually, with the default parameters, 4 out of 10 can fail while<br>
guaranteeing to preserve the data. shares.happy - shares.needed = 4.<br>
<br>
(The circles could be reinterpreted as shares rather than servers, but<br>
that's not particularly intuitive.)<br>
<br>
I really think that this matters and that we should not be claiming<br>
that (shares.total-shares.needed) servers can fail. I've been trying<br>
to fix anywhere that this mistake is made in the docs.<br>
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David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ <a href="http://davidsarah.livejournal.com" target="_blank">http://davidsarah.livejournal.com</a><br>
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