Re: [tahoe-dev] CORS for web API

2013-03-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ut a better long-term direction is to design accounting so that there are no remaining ambient authority issues, so that CORS can be enabled for all requests). -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Definition of health of a file/directory

2013-03-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ng list doesn't butcher Unicode; that's your font I think. (I'm guessing it's not your mail client per se, unless there's a problem specific to message display, because your reply is tagged correctly as UTF-8 and preserved the bigender character in my sig.) You can probably

Re: [tahoe-dev] CORS for web API

2013-03-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
[1] way, > i.e. no matter > what host my app is launched from, I'd like it to use any tahoe server so > configured for > cross-origin requests. Please see <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1215>, in particular the security considerations mentioned there. -- Dav

Re: [tahoe-dev] github plan?

2013-03-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
gt; over there, then delete the version forked from warner and rename > tahoe-lafs-redux to > tahoe-lafs. > > Make sure NOT to fork tahoe-lafs-redux from tahoe-lafs, but instead create a > new project > and push to it directly ;) I disagree, creating a new project would be un

Re: [tahoe-dev] github plan?

2013-03-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
If this is not a fast-forward then the push will fail, in which case they rebase and push again. > Can trac interact with a github pull request? This workflow doesn't cause any problem for trac. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc

[tahoe-dev] Definition of health of a file/directory

2013-03-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
fs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/614>, which is planned to be fixed for v1.11. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] ticket #1767 landed: cautions to take when upgrading

2013-03-20 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
anyone else). I added a note about this in NEWS.rst: [https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/commit/97a7cac7d3263e822d38f0d937b59dbb4dc366a9] -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list ta

Re: [tahoe-dev] odd repair output

2013-03-17 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
laced > without version number changes in these kinds of situations. It may reduce the incidence for mutable files/directories, but we need to make these fixes to the repair algorithm anyway. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: [tahoe-dev] github plan?

2013-03-03 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
't know. It's not strictly necessary for other repos to re-fork. The advantage of doing so is that they'll get updates from trunk faster, because they won't have to wait for Brian to pull from trunk to his repo. But not re-forking does not create any impediment to int

Re: [tahoe-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] [ANNOUNCE] check_tor.py: a Nagios check for Tor relays

2013-02-26 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
; The response should have the same mime type. This follows normal REST design > patterns. It isn't clear that the separation of resources and representations in REST, i.e. the fact that different representations don't have different URIs, is actually a good idea. Certainly

Re: [tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #867: use ipv6

2013-02-16 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Greg Troxel put forward apply to such addresses, in general. It's quite plausible that a Tahoe-LAFS grid could be made up entirely of nodes that are inter-routable using FC00::/7 addresses. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #867: use ipv6

2013-02-16 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 16/02/13 17:05, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 16/02/13 12:49, Randall Mason wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:28 PM, > <mailto:kpn...@pobox.com>> wrote: >> >> Is there really a need to restate the protocol next to the address? The >> two addr

Re: [tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #867: use ipv6

2013-02-16 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ed (in src/allmydata/_auto_deps.py) to >= 12.1.0, as changing the dependency on foolscap to the version that supports IPv6. (While setuptools/zetuptoolz/distribute would take note of the indirect dependency on >= 12.1.0 via foolscap anyway, this makes it clearer what version Tahoe

Re: [tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #867: use ipv6

2013-02-16 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
cal in tahoe requires a lot of complexity, > clutters the lists of addresses, and results in clients trying to make > connections that cannot succeed. > > So my advice is to at least for now, limit things to global addresses. +1 -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Desc

Re: [tahoe-dev] A simple 2 nodes replication

2013-02-14 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
eads to incremental > complexity. Next one wants one distribution criteria for "good enough > to place a file" and another for "good enough that we don't try to make > it better". The currently proposed algorithm is in <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/t

Re: [tahoe-dev] A simple 2 nodes replication

2013-02-14 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ot;. That's covered by <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1784> and <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/614>. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] A simple 2 nodes replication

2013-02-14 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
; this, I am a little unclear on if --repair just does a repair (regenerate > missing shares), > or also does a rebalance (move shares from node to node to improve > redundancy). Unfortunately, --repair does not rebalance. This is <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/699>, wh

Re: [tahoe-dev] pubgrid servers, bug?

2013-02-14 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
1 not > being recoverable. (Also, I think it should extend the lease on any > non-recoverable shares.) > > Is there an existing bug about this? Or am I confused? This is probably <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/755>. Does the error look the same? -- David-S

Re: [tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #867: use ipv6

2013-02-14 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
the same format they appear in furls. > After these side cases are thought out, tests, tests, and more tests! Excellent. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.o

Re: [tahoe-dev] Multiple introducers / single grid

2013-01-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
works. I thought the introducer node process had to be running > in order to access the tahoe grid? The introducer only has to be running in order to make connections between client and server processes. Once those are connected, the introducer isn't needed for as long as the client and s

Re: [tahoe-dev] Multiple introducers / single grid

2013-01-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
e format of a single FURL is described at <http://foolscap.lothar.com/docs/using-foolscap.html#auto7>; that explains where the location hints go. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list ta

Re: [tahoe-dev] Multiple introducers / single grid

2013-01-17 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ints to the host running the new introducer.) -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Building tahoe-lafs on 64bit Windows 7 - Part 1, The building bits.

2013-01-17 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 17/01/13 03:28, knuttila @dslextreme.com wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:42 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood > <mailto:david-sa...@jacaranda.org>> wrote: > > Unfortunately the precompiled "egg" for that dependency is missing for > 64-bit Python 2.7 >

Re: [tahoe-dev] Building tahoe-lafs on 64bit Windows 7 - Part 1, The building bits.

2013-01-15 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
> a blog who was following similar footsteps for a different application. > Anyway, we installed > the pywin32 pieces from sourceforge and all that went away. It shouldn't be necessary to install pywin32. If you uninstall pywin32 (from Add/Remove Programs), what error message does it give exactly? -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] some error

2013-01-07 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] introducing BLAKE2: an alternative to SHA-3, SHA-2, SHA-1, and MD5

2012-12-21 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
order to obtain a new filecap that uses the new hash function. The integrity of a file downloaded using the old filecap is still dependent on the old hash function. In the case of encryption, however, reuploading the file doesn't help against an attacker who has the old ciphertext. -- David-Sar

Re: [tahoe-dev] configuring sqlite efficiency and durability

2012-12-03 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
would get a starter lease, right? That depends whether we have periodic checking for shares that need starter leases, or whether the scan for such shares has to be triggered manually. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [tahoe-dev] configuring sqlite efficiency and durability

2012-12-03 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
al mode = default? It's unclear from the other cases whether that would be faster or slower than synchronous = NORMAL, journal mode = WAL. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

[tahoe-dev] Spam accounts on trac

2012-12-02 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
, but if you are one, please use your non-work email for the Tahoe trac :-) In the unlikely event that this caught any legitimate accounts, please accept my apologies, and just recreate the account with a different pattern. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: [tahoe-dev] a few thoughts about the future of leasedb

2012-11-21 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
store objects. >"Does the leasedb need to track corrupted shares?" > >This is the same question as the previous one — a corrupted share > is the same as a share with some of its objects missing. If we do 3a) and a share has a corrupted header, then each time the shar

Re: [tahoe-dev] dev workflow: how to go from a patch to its review?

2012-11-19 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 20/11/12 06:50, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 19/11/12 17:34, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: >> Thanks, David-Sarah, and I'll follow up on those particular patches >> via github comments. >> >> But, this doesn't answer my question, which is: how can yo

Re: [tahoe-dev] description-rewriting bug

2012-11-19 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
n even if it hasn't been edited at all. I don't remember this happening before trac was last upgraded. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] dev workflow: how to go from a patch to its review?

2012-11-19 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
iew comments? > > I guess one answer would be: all reviews get posted to github > comment-on-the-patch, so then you can, when inspecting the patch, look > for comments on it on github. Would that work? That would work for me provided there is some way to extract all the comments from

Re: [tahoe-dev] dev workflow: how to go from a patch to its review?

2012-11-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
e of that in future. I usually file tickets for things that require review, if I can't ask someone on IRC to review it immediately. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Notes from weekly dev chat, Nov 8

2012-11-08 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 08/11/12 19:18, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 08/11/12 17:58, Andrew Miller wrote: >> Warner gave a shared his screen and gave a demonstration of >> merging/rebasing/remote-updating using git. Zooko and I need to find a >> comparably snazzy revision-graph viewer for li

Re: [tahoe-dev] Notes from weekly dev chat, Nov 8

2012-11-08 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
om the View menu. (The set of views is remembered per-repo.) The currently checked-out branch is at the top. It isn't always easy to see where the other branches are in the graph, but you can do File | List references (F2), and clicking on a reference will take you to that position in

Re: [tahoe-dev] 回复: Re: hello

2012-11-06 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
t of the reason why we use a gateway. If every command had to establish a connection to all servers, the per-command overhead would be *much* higher. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] hello

2012-11-02 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
that the Tahoe-LAFS gateway exports is the > webapi. That's not quite accurate; the FTP and SFTP interfaces are separate from the web-API (but implemented by the same gateway node). > ¹ > https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/network-and-relian

Re: [tahoe-dev] Blog post: Introducing BRIC (Bunch of Redundant Independent Clouds)

2012-10-25 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
will support it though. The relevant ticket would be <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/671>. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://ta

Re: [tahoe-dev] 回复: Re: 回复: Re: how to see the log information?

2012-10-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
g "tahoe create-client" as described in https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/running.rst ? > Everything seems right before that, so what is the problem? By the way, we don't really recommend running Tahoe as root. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.as

Re: [tahoe-dev] 回复: Re: how to see the log information?

2012-10-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ces import load_entry_point > ImportError: No module named pkg_resources > > I do not know why... If you upgrade to 1.9.2, then you can use "bin\tahoe debug flogtool" wherever it says "flogtool" in that doc. (This is the easiest option on Windows.) -- David-S

Re: [tahoe-dev] use case request for accounting/leasedb

2012-10-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
That's the minimal change from the existing code, though. I don't think there's any overall simplification available unless we could remove crawlers *entirely*, which I don't think we can do. We can always optimize garbage collection later. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Des

Re: [tahoe-dev] use case request for accounting/leasedb

2012-10-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 18/10/12 20:48, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:29 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood > wrote: >> >>> The only difference between this and the current scheme is that the >>> storage server will never do that on its own — it only does it when &g

Re: [tahoe-dev] use case request for accounting/leasedb

2012-10-12 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
lf expire leases. Does this seem like it supports what you want? If it does, then it doesn't require changes to the current leasedb schema. There was previously some redundancy in the schema because an lease that is past its expiration time was equivalent t

Re: [tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1164: use XSalsa20+AES-128 encryption

2012-10-11 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ad been updated when it hadn't? I think this is happening whenever I comment on a ticket (possibly whenever anyone comments on a ticket). It makes tahoe-lafs-trac-stream almost unusable. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [tahoe-dev] Unhappiness Error

2012-09-27 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 27/09/12 19:21, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 27/09/12 17:27, Brad Rupp wrote: >> I am getting a strange error while uploading files to Tahoe today. The >> error is: >> >> "UploadUnhappinessError('shares could be placed on only 9 server(s) such >&g

Re: [tahoe-dev] Unhappiness Error

2012-09-27 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
get install python-foolscap' on Debian-based Linux - run 'bin/tahoe @flogtool tail --catch-up STORAGE_SERVER_BASEDIR/private/logport.furl' See docs/logging.rst has more information about logging. Is it Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.2 running on the client and all storage servers? -- David-S

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Conference report, 2012-09-25

2012-09-27 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 27/09/12 17:12, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 27/09/12 16:27, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: >> Topic: proof-of-storage/proof-of-retrievability >> >> CiC suggested a pass-through "Chess Grandmaster" style attack of >> storage server which doesn'

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Conference report, 2012-09-25

2012-09-27 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ng those from k other shares. So it's really a proof of knowledge rather than a proof of storage. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Choice of tree-hash

2012-09-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 25/09/12 07:33, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 24/09/12 22:40, Tony Arcieri wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:35 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood >> > <mailto:david-sa...@jacaranda.org>> wrote: >> >> Integrity checking using a hash of the cipher

Re: [tahoe-dev] Choice of tree-hash

2012-09-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 24/09/12 22:40, Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:35 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood > <mailto:david-sa...@jacaranda.org>> wrote: > > Integrity checking using a hash of the ciphertext relies on the > decryption being > correct. > > I

Re: [tahoe-dev] Choice of tree-hash

2012-09-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ility that makes capabilities great The current Tahoe design allows random keys. It doesn't require any extra field in the capability. There's just no UI to enable it at the moment. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [tahoe-dev] Choice of tree-hash

2012-09-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 24/09/12 20:35, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 23/09/12 20:11, Tony Arcieri wrote: >> Why not use a hash (tree) of the ciphertext for this purpose? I suppose >> encrypting the >> hash of the plaintext accomplishes the same thing... > > In addition to CodesInC

Re: [tahoe-dev] Choice of tree-hash

2012-09-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
dardized, it could potentially also be sent as an HTTP header and checked by the web browser, giving better end-to-end integrity. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-l

Re: [tahoe-dev] Weekly Dev Hangout 2012-09-18

2012-09-19 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 20/09/12 01:26, Brian Warner wrote: > On 9/19/12 4:09 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: >> On 19/09/12 22:06, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote: > >>> 2. human check (to discourage abuse), human chooses whether to add a >>> comment to the revision (not to the pull requ

Re: [tahoe-dev] Weekly Dev Hangout 2012-09-18

2012-09-19 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
rcs workflow which would tell you if there were unpulled changes on trunk, if you were paying attention.) > Zooko would like to upgrade https://tahoe-lafs.org to Trac 1.0 > soonish. It includes a git network graph and builtin handling of git > and multiple git bra

[tahoe-dev] Content-Security-Policy, and referrer leakage for capabilities-in-URLs

2012-09-12 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ttachment/ticket/127/restrict-referrer-leakage.txt -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS's 6th birthday is coming up!

2012-09-12 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
sufficient interest in having one for the North of England, I'll find a hackerspace or somewhere similar in Manchester to have it in. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tah

Re: [tahoe-dev] notes from the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Dev Call, 2012-09-11

2012-09-11 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 11/09/12 20:54, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 11/09/12 17:59, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: >> There is still the question of how to handle hyperlinks into >> https://tahoe-lafs.org that point at darcs patches and history. > > I think that the darcs history should be

Re: [tahoe-dev] notes from the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Dev Call, 2012-09-11

2012-09-11 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
as read-only, but 'darcs annotate' switched off to avoid performance problems on tahoe-lafs.org. (We can remove obsolete darcs branches.) > • topic: Will Cloud Backend, leasedb, and accounting go into Tahoe-LAFS v1.11? We don't need to decide that yet, it depends whether they ar

Re: [tahoe-dev] new project

2012-09-05 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 05/09/12 04:47, Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:40 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <mailto:david-sa...@jacaranda.org>> wrote: > > Well, not really. They can't fix security flaws without patching the > browser code, which is sort-of technically p

Re: [tahoe-dev] new project

2012-09-04 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
. They can't fix security flaws without patching the browser code, which is sort-of technically possible, but impractically fragile. Fortunately, HTML5 sandbox addresses the same-origin issues at least to the extent of being able to reliably create frames that have their own unique origi

Re: [tahoe-dev] wheel file signatures scheme

2012-09-01 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
nvenient way to mention the public key we expect: > > package[extra, ed25519=ouBJlTJJ4SJXoy8Bi1KRlewWLU6JW7HUXTgvU1YRuiA] I missed this when you first posted it. I like it a lot. The signature would be on the wheel binary package file? -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Descr

Re: [tahoe-dev] split brain? how handled in tahoe -- docs?

2012-08-06 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ch detail) is essentially a special case of Paxos with a gateway acting as both Proposer and (single) Learner, and the servers acting as Acceptors. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list

Re: [tahoe-dev] Warning or error when running Tahoe as root

2012-08-02 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 02/08/12 19:39, markus reichelt wrote: > * David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > >> There's an argument for saying that this shouldn't just be a >> warning; it should be an error, because running as root once may >> already do things that need to be undone (e.g. crea

[tahoe-dev] Warning or error when running Tahoe as root

2012-07-31 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
lready do things that need to be undone (e.g. creating files owned by root, as in the case that motivated the ticket). If we made it an error then we could add an --allow-root option to suppress it; is that necessary, or overcomplicated? -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: Op

Re: [tahoe-dev] newbie question

2012-07-30 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
have 35 open tickets and have closed 36 tickets related to setuptools: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?keywords=~setuptools&group=resolution&order=priority A few of those are duplicates, some are only tangentially related to setuptools, and one is a joke, but the number does fairly

Re: [tahoe-dev] newbie question

2012-07-30 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/445 "tcp hole-punching!" https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/169 "'rebalancing manager'" https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/543 "Automatically schedule repair process (and backups?)" https://tahoe-lafs.or

Re: [tahoe-dev] weekly Tahoe dev call report: 2012-07-10

2012-07-13 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
tions; they don't necessarily need to be in the right order for rebalancing to converge.) -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Python 2.7 Windows build Re: Announcing Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2

2012-07-11 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 12/07/12 05:29, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 11/07/12 18:48, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: >> Hm, according to this mailing list post -- >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-April/573606.html -- >> and this blog -- >> http://blog.victorjabur.com

Re: [tahoe-dev] Python 2.7 Windows build Re: Announcing Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2

2012-07-11 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
press (Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition with SP1). You also need the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=3138 I haven't tested this because I don't have a copy of 64-bit Windows. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ s

Re: [tahoe-dev] weekly Tahoe dev call report: 2012-07-10

2012-07-11 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
n which case we don't get any benefit from restoring the backup, I think. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] some error

2012-07-09 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
9.2: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/git/src/allmydata/storage/crawler.py?annotate=blame&branch=1.9.2#L193 -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe

Re: [tahoe-dev] some error

2012-07-07 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
state file and deleting it will not cause any problems. I will improve the error message for this. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-l

Re: [tahoe-dev] p2p or client/server? Re: switching from introducers to gossip?

2012-07-04 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ke > baking "p2p style" into the introduction protocol. Actually I think it would have been conceptually simpler for client nodes never to be servers. Perhaps it's too late to change that, but if we have to break compatibility in other ways then I think it would not be an unreasona

Re: [tahoe-dev] Announcing Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2

2012-07-03 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
c-cryptopp\x6 > 4dll.asm Thanks for the report. I've built the necessary dependencies for 32-bit Windows, but need someone to build Twisted and pycryptopp for 64-bit Windows. We'll try to have that done that by tomorrow. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signatu

[tahoe-dev] Announcing Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2

2012-07-03 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
o the team of "hackers in the public interest" who make Tahoe-LAFS possible. David-Sarah Hopwood on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team July 3, 2012 Rainhill, Merseyside, UK [1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS.rst [2] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe backup in 1.8.3, where are my files?

2012-07-01 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
an I started > backup on the > [parent directory], which went through all the files really quick and also > finished with > success. > > But after all that, I can only find empty directories in the wb UI. > My files seem to be there, but I can't find them. What

Re: [tahoe-dev] ANN: grid-updates 1.1.3

2012-06-30 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ttp://git.repo.i2p.to/w/grid-updates.git/blob/master:/share/welcome.xhtml.patched19>), and they look like something we want to have in upstream Tahoe. Actually, they almost exactly implement <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1369>. Can you attach your patches to tahoe.css and w

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe-lafs 1.9.1 shipped in the next Debian stable

2012-06-23 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ith the darcs repo of trunk. The 1.9.2 release is being done on a separate darcs branch (URL in zooko's mail above, or tarball at https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/snapshots/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.2a1.tar.gz), which does not have a git equivalent. Testing trunk is useful because the 1.10 re

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe-lafs 1.9.1 shipped in the next Debian stable

2012-06-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 23/06/12 03:52, erp...@gmail.com wrote: > Is the transition to git still happening? Yes, after this release. (There will probably be a git branch equivalent to this release as well.) -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signat

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe-lafs 1.9.1 shipped in the next Debian stable

2012-06-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 23/06/12 03:40, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > On 22/06/12 16:51, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: >> Also, it would be great to have some actual users try out 1.9.2 before >> we finalize it. > > Definitely! Especially if you reported/experienced a bug against 1.9.1 > o

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2 alpha packages for testing!

2012-06-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
produced the following error messages. [...] That should probably be equivalent to 'python setup.py --help'. Filed as <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1779>. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2 alpha packages for testing!

2012-06-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ed at https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/snapshots/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.2a1.tar.gz , except that zooko's tarballs are incorrectly tagged as 1.9.1a1, and the one I posted is correctly tagged as 1.9.2a1. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: O

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe-lafs 1.9.1 shipped in the next Debian stable

2012-06-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ary you got is incapable of > handling HTTPS. In that case, you give up and complain to us and we'll > post some tar.gz files for you to try out... I posted a source tarball for 1.9.1a1 at https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/snapshots/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.2a1.tar.gz (also .tar.bz2 an

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe-lafs 1.9.1 shipped in the next Debian stable

2012-06-15 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
e to find a bug that would be considered RC for > Debian. If it pops up something in your mind, please tell me. :) 1.9.0/1 introduced several regressions in mutable file support (relative to 1.8.3) that will be fixed in 1.9.2. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [tahoe-dev] Resurrecting Mojo Nation

2012-06-13 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
d consider Xanadu to have been wildly successful compared to the vast majority of research. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Proposed short description of tahoe-LAFS for personal backup

2012-06-13 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
hand, the error handling of 'tahoe backup' is a bit weak and could be improved on all platforms. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Invitation protocol

2012-06-12 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
p * 2^128 / M operations, where p is the success probability and M is the number of targets. Increasing the IC to, say, 192 bits, makes low-probability and multi-target attacks infeasible. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [tahoe-dev] Question about changing k/N

2012-06-04 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
S!&\\xb0\\xa1\\xeb\\x94\\x81F)\\xbb\\x89q\\x02\\x04\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x01P\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x01O', > (('enc_privkey', 923), ('EOF', 2138), ('share_data', 755), ('signature', 399), > ('block_hash_tree', 723), (&#x

Re: [tahoe-dev] Windows 7 Build Fails

2012-05-30 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 28/05/12 23:42, Paul Grunwald wrote: > > Slowly making progress - Crypto is installed, only one test fails. 2.6 was > the available version of Pycrypto You shouldn't actually need to build pycrypto; only pycryptopp. (I know the similar name is confusing.) -- David-S

Re: [tahoe-dev] Windows 7 Build Fails

2012-05-28 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
on-2-7-modules-on-windows-32-and-64-using-msvc-2008-express/>, and use 'python setup.py bdist_egg' at the end to produce the egg distribution. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-de

Re: [tahoe-dev] Potential use for personal backup

2012-05-28 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
e any expectations when the multiple introducer code will make > it into the official stable? Around version 1.11, I think. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Windows 7 Build Fails

2012-05-27 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ac/wiki/Downloads>, but that probably won't help without also having the pycryptopp egg). -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

[tahoe-dev] Off-topic: bytes (was: Potential use for personal backup)

2012-05-23 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
e.html The PDP-10 used words to measure memory size, i.e. its definition of byte was not used as a unit. Some systems define the size of a C 'char' to be greater than 8 bits, but those are not bytes. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: [tahoe-dev] upgrade / my buildslave

2012-05-13 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
t-tahoe-lafs/builders/clean/builds/55/steps/test-desert-island/logs/stdio Unfortunately that test is unreliable (gives false passes) for any packages that are installed on the desert island buildslave, as explained in ticket #1346. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ sign

[tahoe-dev] Plans for 1.9.2, 1.10, and 1.11 releases

2012-05-13 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
via sshfs; - merging the S3 backend support (and possibly other cloud service support) developed by Least Authority Enterprises; - extending the drop-upload feature to Windows; - merging the patches for Tor and I2P into the main release. -- David-Sarah Hop

Re: [tahoe-dev] upgrade / my buildslave

2012-05-13 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
ut it prefers a newer > version from the network). Zooko, what do you think? Yes, that's known behaviour, although I consider it a bug. Ticket #1346 is related but not the same problem. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: [tahoe-dev] Newbie installation notes

2012-05-13 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
enerally we recommend to create a directory and an alias pointing to it using 'tahoe create-alias', then upload files into that directory. How could we improve the docs here? > 9. I want a pony. Filed as <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1736>. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] TWN 28

2012-04-28 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
4.8 > minutes off the time. Actually it means you have to reduce the time to 4.8 minutes on Brian's laptop. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org ht

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