Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of Capabilities


Ignore:
Timestamp:
2010-07-01T02:45:12Z (14 years ago)
Author:
davidsarah
Comment:

Tahoe->Tahoe-LAFS

Legend:

Unmodified
Added
Removed
Modified
  • Capabilities

    v9 v10  
    232313: unknown/future capability strings                     <anything else>
    2424
    25 In Tahoe, directories are built out of mutable files (a directory is really
     25In Tahoe-LAFS, directories are built out of mutable files (a directory is really
    2626just a particular way to interpret the contents of a given mutable file), and
    2727non-directory mutable files aren't used very much. All normal data files are
     
    6464We then use the somewhat-vague term "rootcap" to refer to a cap (usually a
    6565directory write cap) that is not present inside any directory, so the only
    66 way to ever reach it is to remember it somewhere outside of Tahoe. It might
    67 be remembered in the allmydata.com rootcap database (indexed by account name
    68 plus password), or it might be remembered in a ~/.tahoe/private/aliases file,
    69 or it might just be written down on a piece of paper. The point is that you
    70 have to start from somewhere, and we refer to such a starting point as a
    71 "rootcap".
     66way to ever reach it is to remember it somewhere outside of a Tahoe-LAFS
     67filesystem. It might be remembered in the allmydata.com rootcap database
     68(indexed by account name plus password), or it might be remembered in a
     69~/.tahoe/private/aliases file, or it might just be written down on a piece
     70of paper. The point is that you have to start from somewhere, and we refer
     71to such a starting point as a "rootcap".
    7272
    7373}}}