[tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS + sshfs latency issues

[Marco Tedaldi]

Hello Linus

greetings from openwireless st. gallen (still using olsr)

Am 23.07.2011 03:10, schrieb Linus Lüssing:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've recently started looking at Tahoe-LAFS and I'm currently
> trying to get a feeling of how it works. The use-case I'm
> currently aiming at is to have an ftpd and httpd (proftpd +
> lighttpd) running on a distributed file system, where anyone can
> just add and contribute to the storage capacity. Furthermore I'm
> going to use it within an open, public, decentral wireless+vpn
> mesh network (e.g. using the mesh routing protocol
> B.A.T.M.A.N.-Advanced and the VPN software tinc).

I'm also very interested to hear how it works in your case. We tried it
here. It worked, but it was really slow. So now I'm connected to
volunteergrid2 because I really want to use the storage. But I see no
problem for me to contribute to a second grid inside our mesh here.

I think that tahoe can really benefit the users in community networks. I
think that tahoe would have to become more robust in cases where the
connection is not stable. As of now, it just seems to drop the
connection after a certain amount of time and wait for user interaction.

Keep me updated of what results you are getting. I think, the open mesh
networks and the open storage network (you decide yourself how open it
really is) fit really well. And if there is a nice user interface (like
the no-hasle interface of dropbox for example) in the future, i see
really great uses.

best regards

Marco