= 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://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-August/002727.html announcement email]) * nejucomo's hglafs [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-June/004559.html announcement], [http://bitbucket.org/nejucomo/hglafs home page] * Andrej Falout's [http://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004138.html Tahoe Explorer] -- a !JavaScript-based UI and webapi interface by Toby Murray (see also ticket #1000) * [http://insecure.tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-w32-client tahoe-w32-client] -- a complete Windows product with filesystem integration (a virtual drive) and a GUI, written by [wiki:AllmydataDotComPage allmydata.com] and open-sourced, but not documented or announced * [http://tahoe-lafs.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 * [http://code.google.com/p/pyfilesystem/ pyfilesystem] has a Tahoe-LAFS backend now thanks to slush = 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://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/zfec zfec] * [http://tahoe-lafs.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:src/allmydata/_auto_deps.py]. * Python * Twisted * gcc * Nevow * setuptools * OpenSSL = 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]. (Warning: some of the following distinctions between ''types'' of tool may be artificial, or may be more about history and culture than about technical differences.) == more filesystem-ey == * [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://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://irods.org iRODS] is an open source grid technology. Development is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration. license: BSD * [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 and written in C++. 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. == more database-ey == * [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ Cassandra] is a distributed database, based on the Amazon Dynamo design. licence: Apache Software Licence v2.0 == more p2p-ey == * [http://gnunet.org GNUnet] is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network. licence: GPLv2+ * [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 == other == * [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. licence: Mozilla * [http://git-scm.com/ git] is a decentralized revision control tool. No wait! It is a beautiful decentralized data store with a grotesque revision control tool built on top. (Zooko takes full responsibility for this careless slander!) = See Also = * Our [wiki:Dev Dev page], especially the [wiki:Extensions developing Extensions page] * Our [wiki:Bibliography Bibliography page].