Changes between Version 78 and Version 79 of FAQ


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2012-09-13T20:48:17Z (12 years ago)
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zooko
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link to bittorrent on wikipedia

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  • FAQ

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    11'''[=#Q0_what_is_it Q0:] What is Tahoe-LAFS? What can you do with it?'''
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    3 A: Think of Tahoe-LAFS as being like !BitTorrent, except you can upload as well as download. Also, Tahoe-LAFS has directories and files so that if you're looking at a directory that is stored in Tahoe-LAFS, you can navigate to a file or sub-directory that is also in Tahoe-LAFS. So in that sense it is a little more like a filesystem than !BitTorrent is. Tahoe-LAFS comes with filesystem integration for Unix (FUSE) and for Windows—see [#Q23_FUSE Q23], below.
     3A: Think of Tahoe-LAFS as being like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent !BitTorrent], except you can upload as well as download. Also, Tahoe-LAFS has directories and files so that if you're looking at a directory that is stored in Tahoe-LAFS, you can navigate to a file or sub-directory that is also in Tahoe-LAFS. So in that sense it is a little more like a filesystem than !BitTorrent is. Tahoe-LAFS comes with filesystem integration for Unix (FUSE) and for Windows—see [#Q23_FUSE Q23], below.
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    55'''[=#Q1_why_tahoe_lafs Q1:] What is special about Tahoe-LAFS? Why should anyone care about it instead of [wiki:RelatedProjects#OtherProjects other distributed storage systems]?'''