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Documentation for Tahoe Users
The Basics
- about: the Tahoe filesystem and the unique properties that it offers
- install: how to install it
- running: how to run it once it is installed
- using: how to use it once it is running
- Known Issues: things you need to be aware of if you want to rely on Tahoe to store your valuable data.
- The story of a file, interactive illustration by Drew Perttula.
- UseCases: the ways in which Tahoe should be useful
- InstallDetails: more information about building and installing Tahoe
A Glance Under The Hood or "Gee What Does This Button Do?"
- configuration: a description of the contents of your ".tahoe" directory
- architecture: a succinct overview of the whole system
- Command Line Interface: the basic "how to" for the CLI
- Web API: the basic "how to" for the WAPI
Presentations / Papers
- Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem presented at Storage Security and Survivability '08
- Tahoe: A Secure Distributed Filesystem presented at PyCon2008, providing an overview of the Tahoe design, and the slides (.zip) that were used for the presentation
- A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage to be presented at FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
See Also
- The News page for sources of news and information.
- The Bibliography page contains links to scientific papers of interest.
- The RelatedProjects page contains links to a few other decentralized storage projects that you might be interested in.
- The Dev page for Tahoe hackers.
The Parade of Release Notes
| release notes | date | what's new |
|---|---|---|
| v1.5 | August 1, 2009 | WUI style, forward-compatibility, no size-limit on directories, more efficient directories, safer mv |
| v1.4.1 | April 13, 2009 | garbage collection, improved diagnostics, performance improvement when downloading many GB files |
| v1.3 | February 13, 2009 | repairer, backup command, large files, (S)FTP server, more |
| v1.2 | July 21, 2008 | fix a minor security flaw, add operational improvements |
| v1.1 | June 11, 2008 | fix rare but serious issues, improve UI |
| v1.0 | March 25, 2008 | It's version 1.0! |
| v0.9 | March 13, 2008 | Tahoe is now ready to be relied on for secure storage |
| v0.8 | February 15, 2008 | "visibility" into the system and more user interfaces |
| v0.7 | January 8, 2008 | decentralized directories and mutable files, a FUSE interface, and new open source licensing options |
| v0.6.1 | October 15, 2007 | packaging, usability, and performance improvements |
| v0.6 | September 24, 2007 | improved performance and packaging |
| v0.5.1 | August 23, 2007 | fix a security problem in the Web API |
| v0.5 | August 17, 2007 | the Web API and the command-line interface |
| v0.4 | June 29, 2007 | new mutable, shareable, private directories |
| v0.3 | June 6, 2007 | improved basic functionality |
| v0.2 | May 2, 2007 | the first public release, on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists |
