hi! in the light of the recent incident with megaupload owncloud should become more than only a interface to files on only one server.
i think owncloud need this features to become the best cloud software ever ;) 1) replicated back-storage: additional to the (serverside) local storage, store every file to other remote servers/services (via webdav, ... ) this way a killed cloud service provider can not harm your data anymore :) if the files are only stored remote the fingerprint of the owncloud server will be very small. 2) hashing of (remote) stored files add a hash of every remote stored file to the database and verify it at loading it back 3) bundling of storage bundle multiple remote services to a bigger one for example use 10 (possible free) 1GB accounts for a owncloud with 10GB storage 4) blockdevice(s) this is a service primary for backup and not for filesharing. to get the ideam somthing like Amazon Elastic Block Store (http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/) this service should export a blockdevice via iscsi (nbd, ...) for example a 1GB blockdevice is splited in 1000 files with filenames 0000000.blk to 0001000.blk and this files are stored on the server/s. every write to an area in the blockdevice is mapped to one of the backing files transparently. you can encrypt the blockdevice with a luks (dmcrypt) partition and get a very secure storage for a private backup. such a device could/should only be accessed from one client a time. i hope this will start some discussions! cloudfreak ____________________________________________________________ South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za Save on insurance with OUTsurance https://www.outsurance.co.za/insurance-quote/?source=webmailmailer&cr=mfj11_468x60&cid=248 _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
