[tahoe-dev] public backup grid

[Shawn Willden]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:15 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:

> Shawn Willden wrote at 2011-06-18 07:47 -0600:
>
>> The reason for the secrecy and limited size is because Tahoe as yet has no
>>
>> way to prevent abuse.  With a small, closed community it's relatively easy
>> to maintain a sense of fair play and to feel that your "neighbors" are
>> trustworthy.
>>
>
> Since the benefits of Tahoe scale with size, this is a very serious
> limitation.
>
> Indeed, with a small group, your files are apt to be at greater risk,
> rather than lesser risk.
>

That depends on exactly what "small" means, but yes.  VG2 is aiming for
20-30 nodes with moderately-high availability.  Spreading your files across
such a grid with an appropriate choice of shares-needed should provide
extremely high reliability.

-- 
Shawn
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