On 8/9/07, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just googled for raid over network, but I didn't find anything so > maybe I made it up? How about a > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network? This still wouldn't > fix the problem of a server "going to the dark side" but it would > probably be a bit more practical. I have heard of YaCy which is a > distributed search engine and I think there's at least one active node > indexing tor. Is there any program like YaCy that would generate link > directories? > Comrade Ringo Kamens
The problem with a SAN is that it is a central storage site. Give a server write access and if they get compromised the entire Wiki would be gone. What if we set up some sort of communication system that 'informed' the other wiki sites on the access list to changes made? Then, if a site is compromised, all the transactions posted to it simply post to the other wiki's and can be rolled back, and no one has direct control over the other wiki mirrors. If a wiki owner thinks a site has been compromised, they can simply remove the site from their list of approved wiki-mirrors. YaCy works differently than what we want. They distribute their results across multiple machines, and do not mirror the data. What we are aiming to achieve is a service that appears to be one wiki but is indeed interconnected across many machines, each with it's own copy but changes are reflected across the entire set. This way, if one machine dies it does not affect service at all. If we do the YaCy method, if one machine is compromised, whatever data hashed to that server is lost forever. I really think any solution that we want to implement needs to have a mirror-based setup with each individual host (or groups of hosts) able to provide the entire wiki on it's own. -- Thanks, Josh McFarlane http://www.joshmcfarlane.com