[volunteergrid2-l] Where duck introduces himself and shares his Tahoe-LAFS experiences

[duck]

Hello audience,

My name is duck and I am an aspiring patch-contributor to Tahoe-LAFS.
In addition to that I am a developer of the I2P anonymous network
project as well as former contributor / user of various related
projects such as Tor, Freenet and IIP.

While I don't participate to the volunteer(2) grid, I'd like to share
my experiences as well as learn from other deployments in the wild.

Currently I am working on getting I2P supported by the Tahoe-LAFS and
Foolscap projects. For 9 months we are successfully running a test
network on I2P with (at the moment) 13-16 storage nodes. Upstream
patches are currently under review, with hopes to be included in
Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.0.

'My' users are typically running Linux (mostly Debian/Ubuntu), with
two FreeBSD users. Initially there was some interest by Windows users,
but so far none of them has really tried to get it working. While I
managed this myself, I am reluctant to actively support this; to
generalize extremely their short attention span and lack of technical
know-how would severely increase the number of support issues,
negative feedback and unstable nodes.

While the total network capacity is probably 1-2TB I expect only a few
GB to be used. This is mostly due to the high RTT of the anonymity
network and instability of bigger (>30MB) uploads.

The two main issues that I am seeing (beyond installation) on our
network are storage nodes with low availability and storage nodes with
incorrectly configured inbound connections. In addition to this it is
hard to reach node operators to notify them of such issues.
Interestingly enough most of these points have been previously
addressed on this list. Unfortunately the suggestion to include the
email address in the node nick wouldn't work for us due to anonymity
reasons.

Regards,
duck