[tahoe-dev] Tahoe questions

[Francois Deppierraz]

Hello,

Botha, Jacques (FNB) wrote:

> - How does Tahoe scale ? In other words, can I grow or shrink a Tahoe
> file system ?

Yes, you can easily grow the space available in a Tahoe grid by adding
nodes to it.

If you remove nodes from grid, you'll probably have to repair you files
during the operation so that shares gets uploaded on other nodes before
getting unrecoverable.

> - How do I control quotas ?

It's not currently implemented but you can have a look at Brian Warner's
accounting specification at [1].

> - How do I implement redundancy for the "introducer" ?

It's not currently implemented, but the introducer is only required for
new peers joining the network. Your grid still remain usable even if the
introducer is currently not available.

You can read Zooko's report of such event on [2].

François

[1]
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/proposed/accounting-overview.txt
[2] http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-April/001561.html