[tahoe-dev] Getting acquainted

[Hamilton, Jessica]

Hi All,

I've been doing some reading about Tahoe (and a couple other systems), and am trying to get a feel of the viability of a project I'm trying to put together using Tahoe-LAFS :)

I work at Massey University (New Zealand), and am planning to use our lab fleet to build a distributed storage grid. I imagine I could probably get about 100TB out of the system.

We will have about 1,500 PCs, with somewhere between 400GB and 800GB of available disk space per machine to utilise for the storage grid.

I have read about Chord/DHash which uses DHTs; but it looks like Tahoe-LAFS isn't a DHT, and am concerned about nodes leaving/joining often. Given that you only need 3 nodes out of 10 to reproduce content, I imagine hardware failures wouldn't be much of an issue. Also, is there any existing work that can provide an NFS/SMB interface to Tahoe-LAFS? I'm sure much of this is in Trac, there's just a *lot* of reading/research/testing to do... :P

Kindest Regards,

Jessica Hamilton
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