[volunteergrid2-l] New Member

[Peter Le Bek]

>> Introducing Peter as a new member of the list.
>>
>> Peter, please tell us a bit about your self and how you would like to
>> participate in VG2.

Hello everyone,

I'm a student in Glasgow, UK. I've been following Tahoe-LAFS for a few
months now, I'm a Tahoe-LAFS-on-S3 customer, and recently I've been
hacking on a local source tree (yet to submit a patch :-).
Tahoe-LAFS-on-S3 is nice but I'm eager to attach to a bigger grid. I
found out about VG2 via #tahoe-lafs earlier this week and I think it's
just what I'm looking for.

I delayed in making my introduction because I've been considering how
I can meet the technical requirements set out in the policy. I decided
against setting up an EC2/S3 node due to high cost, and in any case
the Tahoe-LAFS S3 backend hasn't made it into release yet. Furthermore
I doubted the benefit of a grid where many nodes are collocated in
Amazon's datacenters. Instead I've decided to setup a node at home.

If anyone's interested, I'm looking at a Soekris 6501 (good OpenBSD
support) together with a 500GB 2.5" SATA Hitachi Travelstar (only
high-duty-cycle 2.5" drives I've found in UK online stores) - this
setup will be low-power, fan-less, compact and more than capable of
running Python/doing bits of crypto. I've been wanting to build one of
these as a switch/firewall/ssh tunnel - VG2/Tahoe-LAFS is another
reason to finally do it. The internet connection I'm planning to use
caps at about 4.0Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up, by my calculation that's
~12 days to download 500GB - I can upgrade if this is drastically less
than other nodes.

It will take me a while to get this together (I might wait for the
Soekris 7051), I hope you don't mind me staying on the mailing list in
the meantime.

Cheers,
Peter ("lebek" on #tahoe-lafs)