= Related Projects = There are several projects to extend Tahoe-LAFS or integrate it with other tools. * Aaron Cordova's [http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-lafs hadoop-lafs] ([http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-August/002727.html announcement email]) * Andrej Falout's [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-June/001976.html obackup] * François Deppierraz's [http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html Tahoe-LAFS plugin for duplicity] * [http://allmydata.org/trac/tiddly_on_tahoe tiddly_on_tahoe] -- Zooko's plugin for !TiddlyWiki so it can save itself to Tahoe-LAFS * [http://github.com/divegeek/GridBackup GridBackup] -- Shawn Willden's ambitious new backup tool project (pre-alpha state). * [http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2-RO%3Atx5ebwnwwdnjon3oqonfj5hrju%3Am2hxcuwpvi6znrevqicnyiokwbudnfpxpxf2wnqe7aajz4ditp3q/ tahoewapijs] -- Nathan Wilcox's Tahoe-LAFS !JavaScript library * {{{src/allmydata/gui/macapp.py}}} -- Rob Kinninmont's Macintosh GUI * {{{contrib/fuse}}} -- three different FUSE implementations by three different authors * [http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-w32-client tahoe-w32-client] -- a complete Windows product with filesystem integration (a virtual drive) and a GUI, written by allmydata.com and open-sourced, but not documented or announced * [http://allmydata.org/trac/libtahoeclient_webapi libtahoeclient_webapi] -- Nils Durner's C client library for the Tahoe-LAFS webapi (pre-alpha state) * [http://github.com/ctrlaltdel/TahoeLAFS-android TahoeLAFS-android] -- François Deppierraz's Tahoe-LAFS client for Android phones * [http://github.com/ctrlaltdel/puppet-tahoe puppet-tahoe] -- François Deppierraz's Tahoe-LAFS plugin for Puppet * [http://github.com/ianlevesque/rubytahoe/ RubyTahoe] -- Ian Levesque's ruby client library for the Tahoe-LAFS webapi. * [http://github.com/soult/rubytahoe/ RubyTahoe] -- David Triendl's fork of Ian's ruby client library with extended features. * [http://github.com/trel/rubytahoe/ RubyTahoe] -- Terrell Russell's fork of David's fork of Ian's ruby client library, now with fewer warnings! * [http://github.com/thraxil/canopy canopy] -- A Django frontend to Tahoe-LAFS = Tips and Tricks = Tahoe-LAFS can be integrated into several other tools simply by adjusting some configuration settings. [wiki:TipsTricks The Tips and Tricks page] describes some of those. = Spin-off Projects = These are projects that are currently primarily maintained by Tahoe-LAFS developers. * [http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac foolscap] * [http://allmydata.org/trac/zfec zfec] * [http://allmydata.org/trac/pycryptopp pycryptopp] * [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyutil pyutil] = Dependencies = We are fortunate to have a vast library of high quality Free Software that we can re-use to build Tahoe-LAFS. We contribute patches and bug reports back to these projects. The following list is incomplete -- see also [source:_auto_deps.py]. * Python * Twisted * gcc * Nevow * setuptools = Other Projects = These projects have no specific relationship with our project, but they are similar in some ways and so may be of interest. We sometimes exchange ideas with the developers of some of these projects, especially on the [http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers p2p-hackers mailing list]. * [http://wieldysoftware.com/octavia/ Octavia] is a new distributed filesystem inspired by Tahoe-LAFS and intended to improve on Tahoe-LAFS in performance and usability. It is very new and not yet usable except for experimentation. licence: GPL * [http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/weave Mozilla Weave] is a project to securely share your web browser metadata such as cookies, saved passwords, and bookmarks. * [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ Cassandra] is a distributed database, based on the Amazon Dynamo design. licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0 * [http://ceph.newdream.net/about ceph] is a distributed filesystem intended to be scalable and robust. It includes kernel code to be loaded into a Linux kernel. There are several peer-reviewed papers about the design. licence: LGPL * [http://cleversafe.org cleversafe] is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid. Some of the company's projects are released under GPLv2. * [http://irods.org iRODS] is an open source grid technology building on top of 10 years of work on SRB (storage resource broker). Development of the core iRODS data grid system is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration. license: BSD * [http://gnunet.org GNUnet] is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. licence: GPLv2+ * [http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ Hadoop] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives). licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0 * [http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net CloudStore] formerly known as "Kosmos Distributed File System" -- is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in C++, and recently announced some sort of compatibility with Hadoop. licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0 * [http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ mogilefs] is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL. It was written by the folks who made [http://livejournal.com LiveJournal]. The name is an anagram for "OMG files". licence: some combination of BSD and GPL and Artistic. * [http://flud.org flud backup] is an ambitious decentralized backup system. flud has the distinction of being one of the few decentralized storage projects with a sense of humor. It appears to be dormant. licence: GPLv3 = See Also = * Our [wiki:Dev Dev page], especially the [wiki:Extensions developing Extensions page] * Our [wiki:Bibliography Bibliography page].