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(in convergent fashion, or not), but I think having some kind of assurance
and or protection against unwanted eyes on the metadata would be good and
interesting.

Secondly, regarding the VDrive again.
Is there any service, could there be any service, that keeps/syncs this
drive metadata on behalf of the user, so that in the event of a local disk
crash, the user can go to a service and pick up their metadata.
Again, not being intimated with the pay service, nor the run time aspects of
any of this, I'm not sure if that's there or not :)

Anyway, those are my cursory questions.
Thanks guys and I look forward to working with the system soon.

--josh



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First and foremost, hi all.<br>I&#39;m very interested in learning about <a href="http://allmydata.org">allmydata.org</a> and the storage mechanisms offered.<br>So far, I&#39;ve read architecture.txt and have a few questions.
<br>It takes me a bit to internalize stuff so forgive me if my queries are newbish or uh-doi in nature. :)<br>Also, of note, I have no experience with the runtime of AMD as of yet, but that&#39;s on my short todo list :)<br>
Getting an experiential handle on things will provide an education in of itself, and I can&#39;t wait to cordon off some time to do it.<br><br>Anyway...<br>From my cursory understanding, the VDrive is just an aggregation of URI&#39;s in a flat file on the user&#39;s disk.
<br>Is this flat file protected by any means?<br>Like does the user have to present any kind of credentials in order to &quot;unlock&quot; this VDrive, or is it stored in plaintext on the user&#39;s hard drive?<br>From my understanding, yes, the contents of the URIs are indeed encrypted (in convergent fashion, or not), but I think having some kind of assurance and or protection against unwanted eyes on the metadata would be good and interesting.
<br><br>Secondly, regarding the VDrive again.<br>Is there any service, could there be any service, that keeps/syncs this drive metadata on behalf of the user, so that in the event of a local disk crash, the user can go to a service and pick up their metadata.
<br>Again, not being intimated with the pay service, nor the run time aspects of any of this, I&#39;m not sure if that&#39;s there or not :)<br><br>Anyway, those are my cursory questions.<br>Thanks guys and I look forward to working with the system soon.
<br><br>--josh <br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.cryptomail.org">http://www.cryptomail.org</a><br>

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