[tahoe-dev] erasure code

Zooko O'Whielacronx zookog at gmail.com
Sat May 25 04:02:45 UTC 2013


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Yu Xiang <xy336699 at gwu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I see that the tahoe is using (10,3) erasure coding, since the file is
> broken into 10 chunks,

That's right, but that is configurable. See
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/configuration.rst


> does the current version of tahoe allows users to
> setup how many chunks it would like to upload to a certain server?

Not yet. To support that is the topic of
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/ServerSelection

Regards,

Zooko


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