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Documentation for Tahoe-LAFS Users
There are two collections of documents for users. One collection is made up of pages on this wiki, and the other is made up of files in the 'docs' directory of the Tahoe-LAFS source tree.
Note: these links are to the 'trunk' (latest) versions of the documentation. See the 'docs' directory of a Tahoe-LAFS release for docs relating to that version.
User Docs, on the wiki
- about: the Tahoe-LAFS filesystem and the unique properties that it offers
- quickstart: how to get the software and set it up
- running: how to run it once it is set up
- Known Issues: things you need to be aware of if you want to rely on Tahoe-LAFS to store your valuable data.
- How To Report A Bug: We love bug reports! Here's how.
- The story of a file, interactive illustration by Drew Perttula.
- Frequently Asked Questions: with answers!
- UseCases: the ways in which Tahoe-LAFS should be useful
- AdvancedInstall: more information about building and installing Tahoe-LAFS
- SFTP Frontend: compatibility issues for accessing Tahoe-LAFS via SFTP
- Tips & Tricks
User Docs, in source code
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
- Capabilities what are capabilities; the different kinds that we currently use
Presentations / Papers
- http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/wiki/News/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf presented at RSA 2010
- 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-LAFS 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 extensions to Tahoe-LAFS, integrations of Tahoe-LAFS into your favorite other tools, and links to a few other decentralized storage projects that you might be interested in.
- The Dev page for Tahoe-LAFS hackers.
The Parade of Release Notes
| release notes | date | what's new |
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| v1.8.1 | November 28, 2010 | minor bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement to downloads; also binary packages of dependencies for more platforms |
| v1.8.0 | September 24, 2010 | performance and fault-tolerance of downloads, internationalization on Windows, logging, packaging |
| v1.7.1 | July 19, 2010 | upload bugfixes, Debian init scripts, etc. |
| v1.7.0 | June 18, 2010 | SFTP, unicode, servers-of-happiness |
| v1.6.1 | February 27, 2010 | fixes a few small regressions in v1.6.0 |
| v1.6 | February 1, 2010 | performance improvements, usability improvements, deep-immutable directories |
| 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 |
