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Welcome to Allmydata "Tahoe"

The Allmydata "Tahoe" project is a scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant filestore, distributed under a free-software license.

The basic idea is that the data in this filesystem is spread over all participating nodes, using an algorithm that can recover the data even if a majority of the nodes are no longer available.

The README and the release notes have a lot more detail.

Tahoe resources

  • The code is available via darcs by running the following command:
    darcs get http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk
    
  • Other related libraries are available in http://allmydata.org/source/
  • Buildbot: current build status
  • ???: current code coverage
  • Graph of code coverage
  • The architecturaloverview documents some of the design.
  • to install debian packages for etch, dapper, edgy, or feisty, add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing the word DIST with etch, dapper, edgy, or feisty as appropriate:
    deb http://allmydata.org/debian/  DIST  main tahoe
    deb-src http://allmydata.org/debian/  DIST  main tahoe
    
    Then update and install the allmydata-tahoe package. These packages are generated each time the code is changed, and represent the most up-to-date (read "unstable") version available. The usual warnings about no guarantees apply: it might cause your computer to catch fire, might steal your dog, etc.
    • we need to set up an etch buildslave, as we don't currently have one running
  • TahoeIssues? contains some discussion, open issues, and more docs

License

Tahoe is offered under the GNU General Public License (v2). It also comes with the added permission that, in the case that you are obligated to release a derived work under this licence (as per section 2.b of the GPLv2), you may delay the fulfillment of this obligation for up to 12 months.

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