2009/4/22 Gael Varoquaux <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:27:44PM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote: >> Anyone out there have ideas or suggestions about distributed storage. >> We have an ever growing need to store sizeable amounts of open >> material in a replicated and distributed fashion. > > I here a lot about Tahoe: > http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html
Thanks for the pointer. I'd played around with this a while ago when it had just gone 1.0. My two concerns were: 1. It seemed heavily focused on encryption of stuff (because it was intended for backing up private data). We don't need that at all. 2. (perhaps for similar reasons) The user/api interface was hard to get a handle on (how did you browse what the system contained, how did you manage permissions, how did you automatically locate chunks and download). Looking at their recent 1.4 release it looks like a lot of this has been improved so this really might be worth taking a look again. Anyone's experience setting up tahoe nodes, creating an interface etc much appreciated. Rufus PS: I've created a wiki page to aggregate this kind of info: <http://wiki.okfn.org/projects/Distributed_Storage/Research> _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
