[tahoe-dev] another tahoe frontend question

Olaf TNSB still.another.person at gmail.com
Tue May 28 22:49:43 UTC 2013


Have a look at git-annex.

It can have Tahoe-LAFS as a "special remote".
On 28/05/2013 10:32 PM, "til" <tilllt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> finally i got tahoe running on my Raspberry Pi. I connected successfully
> to the testgrid, up / downloaded some files, so things seem to work.
> Actually i was positively surprised by the speed, a ~ 100mb testfile took
> roughly 45 minutes, which is far from fast but consideringe the speed of
> the RPi that was doing the encryption i thought that was decent. The
> bottleneck in my case usually is the upload speed of the ADSL line which
> applies to Dropbox (and any other cloud storage) in the same way, without
> encryption. i wasnt aware that Tahoe encrypts and uploads at the same time,
> so i guess with a 1Mbit Upload speed usually the encryption is faster then
> the uploading...
>
> Now the annoying part of my post: To make Tahoe really usable for me, it
> would need some different kind of frontend. I rarely access Dropbox through
> the WUI, neither Owncloud, which i am testing at the moment. Since i am
> following the discussion here for a while now, i know this is probably
> beyond the available time that anyone of you has right now, but just to
> have an idea of future developments: Are there plans to make a sync client,
> like Dropbox & Owncloud have? I was wondering if Sparkleshare could be a
> possibility... How i understand it, the default backend is Git, but it
> seems that for somebody who knows programming, it should be possible to
> create a Tahoe plugin for it:
>
> https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Implementing-a-backend
>
> Opinions on that?
>
> cheers,
> tilllt
>
>
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