Re: [Tahoe-LAFS] #2383: CLI option to automatically start and stop a node

2015-02-12 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Lukas Pirl wrote: > I just wanted to reply to a ticket but this comment got a 95.19% spam > rating?! What? Argh. Hm… I'm not sure, but I think what is happening is that spammers have started submitting complete English texts that they've copied from somewhere el

Re: How to use TLS with PFS for a node's web server

2015-02-11 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Thanks, Jakob! Is there any reason why all of that shouldn't happen automatically by default when a user runs Tahoe-LAFS? If not, then let's create an issue ticket for it! Regards, Zooko ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe

Nuts & Bolts report

2015-02-10 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
.. -*- coding: utf-8-with-signature-unix; fill-column: 73; -*- Tahoe-LAFS Nuts & Bolts, 2015-02-10Z in attendance: Daira, Brian, Zooko (scribe), David We worked on the upcoming Tahoe-LAFS v1.10.1 release. We reviewed, refactored, and merged a new contribution

Nuts & Bolts Report

2015-02-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
in attendance: Zooko, Daira, Brian We spent about two hours working on filenames support on Windows -- long file names, UNC paths, etc. This is because these issues are slated to go into the imminent Tahoe-LAFS v1.10.1 release. It's amazing how much work it is to get such basic normal functionali

Re: foolscap negotiation fails with "unknown TubID"

2015-02-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi Lukas, thanks for the bug report! I don't immediately know why this could be happening. I know that a lot of others use Tahoe-LAFS on FreeBSD, so it isn't something that fails *all* the time on FreeBSD, but because the only node that has this problem in your setup is your only FreeBSD node, then

Re: Help understanding an UploadUnhappinessError

2014-12-11 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi Kyle! Sorry that I didn't see this before now. I'm sorry that the error message is so frustrating. Fixing that is the topic of https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2101 (improve error messages from failed uploads). The best solution would be for it to just show, visually, a complete m

Re: Sync to newly added servers

2014-11-24 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Shu Lin wrote: > > Hi, > > I like to use Tahoe in an application which I will add new servers > dynamically in new locations (across WAN link). I am wondering how hard and > how to implement a feature to distribute the shares saved in > old-already-deployed servers

how to test changes to packaging code

2014-11-21 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: At a Hack Fest, Daira was asking me about something. She mentioned how our policy requires unit tests to accompany any patches that change behavior or fix bugs. And, she asked, what if the patch changes the behavior of the build system, or fixes bugs in the packaging code — do we make an ex

Re: what's the information in the picture mean

2014-09-09 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:57 AM, 袁盛东 wrote: > Hello everyone,I upload a 50M file to the tahoe system,I want to know is > the cumulative encoding 2.19s means the zfec encoding time ? > It is the time to do both zfec encoding and AES encryption. > I chose the (3,6) as the encoding parameter .Is

Re: Nuts+Bolts report, 02-Sep-2014

2014-09-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Mark Berger wrote: > Can someone send me the invite for the next meeting? Done! > I'm not sure I'll be able to attend but I'll try to if you're all looking at > the happiness stuff. Great! Delighted to have your help! I'll try to get the happiness code back int

Re: Nuts+Bolts report, 02-Sep-2014

2014-09-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Ruben Pollan wrote: > > Is there any chance to get 2045 (Make the paths of the different folders > configurable) in 1.11? Can I do something to speed up the review process, > it's > being a month since we started it. > > Will be great if we enter in time for the n

Re: Nuts+Bolts report, 02-Sep-2014

2014-09-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
What about #2235? It is a pressing issue for LeastAuthority's Windows-using customers, and there is a patch that is more-or-less complete. (Owned by Daira at the moment.) Regards, Zooko https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2235# Error from 'tahoe cp' on Windows, due to a long path (IOEr

Re: out of shares error

2014-03-22 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > I just rebuilt tahoe-lafs from pkgsrc with updated py-OpenSSL and the > newly vast set of dependencies for it. So far everything seems to be > ok. I ran a deep-check --add-lease over an alias with about 5500 > objects (and I believe all i

Re: Problems building Tahoe-LAFS v1.10.0 for OpenBSD 5.4.

2014-02-13 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:26 PM, wrote: > Hello, Hello! Welcome. > unable to execute cc: No such file or directory It sounds like it is trying to invoke the compiler (which is an executable named "cc") and it can't find it. So this is an occurrence of https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/w

Re: Centos Install

2014-02-11 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi! Welcome. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Gavin King wrote: > > [root@vps3 allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0]# python setup.py build > Not found: tahoe-deps > Not found: ../tahoe-deps > twisted/runner/portmap.c:10:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory That's: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/taho

Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Hack Hour report

2014-02-06 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: Today we had a Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Hack Hour. Oleksandr and I were the only attendees. Sickness also helped, on IRC. I rebased some patches of mine for #1382 onto a new branch: https://github.com/zooko/tahoe-lafs/blob/1382-rewrite-3 We looked at the docs of #1382. I understood nsh's review

Re: Poor performance in test grid

2013-12-30 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Dear Lukas Pirl: Thanks for the data! On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Lukas Pirl wrote: > > * Timings: > * File Size: 1073741824 bytes > * Total: 7 minutes (2.32MBps) > * Storage Index: 47 seconds (22.84MBps) > * Peer Selection: 6.12s > * Encode And Push: 6 minutes

Re: Poor performance in test grid

2013-12-25 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hello, Lukas Purl: Thanks for the note! Could you please look at the timing measurements, from the Recent Uploads and Downloads page when doing this experiment, and post here what you learn? Thanks! https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1375# the performance stats for each upload or downl

the new 2014 Add-Only Sets

2013-11-12 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: (This is a copy of https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/795#comment:13 .) Here's my rendition of our discussion of add-only sets at the Tahoe-LAFS Summit today. (As usual, I altered and embellished this story significantly while writing it down, and people who were present to witn

Re: [tahoe-dev] List server leaves invalid DKIM signatures

2013-11-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > (Regardless of DKIM, I am opposed to subject munging. It takes up space and > provides no value for people with adequate mail setups.) Okay, I just tried to turn off the feature of prepending "[tahoe-dev] " to the Subject lines. Let's see h

Re: [tahoe-dev] SNARKs, constant-time proofs of computation

2013-11-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Arthur Breitman wrote: > > Is there anything of the sort planned or available in Tahoe? Interesting that you should ask! This is called a "Proof-of-Retrievability". Tahoe-LAFS as it currently exists already has *most* of a Proof-of-Retrievability! At, least, in my

Re: [tahoe-dev] List server leaves invalid DKIM signatures

2013-11-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hm, I did a duckduckgo search on how to strip out the DKIM-Signature header, and found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/557493 which says it was a bug that GNU Mailman used to strip those out and that in GNU Mailman 2.1.10 they changed it to leave them in. We recently upgraded, so ma

Re: [tahoe-dev] WebFiles

2013-10-31 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hey there, Jason: Your message didn't come through as text: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-October/008777.html Could you try sending it a different way? Regards, Zooko ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoemenu.py - ConfigParser write method removes comments?

2013-10-21 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Garonda Rodian wrote: > I've been attempting to start a basic menu system to build grids Cool! > when I try the ConfigParser write method, all of the commented out entries in > the tahoe.cfg are removed... I would suggest *not* having the menu system edit an exi

Re: [tahoe-dev] upgrading server, expect some bumps

2013-10-21 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Brian Warner wrote: > > * trac is running, but page rendering is omitting headers and footers, > which means there's no nav bar to find the other pages This happens every time we upgrade trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/7463#comment:15 > * all existing li

Re: [tahoe-dev] ODROID-U2 (linux) tahoe-lafs 1.10.0 initial report

2013-10-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Garonda Rodian wrote: > > Are there any benchmarking modes for tahoe-lafs? I'd like to see the > throughput for the encryption step, and for the zfec step, and the hashing, > etc., to be able to compare setups. Yes, there is a builtin feature to collect and dis

Re: [tahoe-dev] Dusting off lafs-rpg.

2013-10-14 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Callme Whatiwant wrote: > > Thanks Patrick! Before I accepted this, I was hoping people with more > knowledge of recent TLS vulnerabilities and/or forward secrecy could take a > glance at the cipher list and comment on if it's still "Today's Best TLS > config".

Re: [tahoe-dev] Precise Puppy (linux) tahoe-lafs 1.10.0 initial report

2013-10-04 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Garonda Rodian wrote: > > Back to the original topic, Precise Puppy 5.7.1 on a physical box, quad core > i7 with 4GB of RAM has now successfully completed one test, 100% local, with > two storage nodes, one Introducer, and on client/Gateway, once I figured out >

Re: [tahoe-dev] Read only (client/gateway only) Introducer furls?

2013-09-28 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Dear Garonda Rodian: It sounds like you're confusing the authority to access certain files-and-directories (which ultimately boils down to some cryptographic keys and/or cryptographic identifiers) with the authority to upload data. The former is currently controlled by those caps that you named, t

[tahoe-dev] the GNU 30th Birthday party!

2013-09-26 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: Tahoe-LAFS is one of the featured projects at the GNU 30th Birthday Party Hackathon! https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/celebration I'm going to be there in person in Cambridge. What I want to do during the Hackathon is make Tahoe-LAFS work better with Tor and/or I2P. I know that at least a couple

Re: [tahoe-dev] Precise Puppy (linux) tahoe-lafs 1.10.0 initial report

2013-09-26 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Welcome, Garonda Rodian! Thanks for the nice user report! On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Garonda Rodian wrote: > > First, let me say the quickstart guide is great; Thanks for the positive feedback! We get a lot of negative feedback on the docs for new users, and so I still want to improve th

Re: [tahoe-dev] Manual rebalancing in 1.10.0?

2013-09-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Kyle: Thanks for the good explanation! If I understand correctly, Mark's #1382 branch will fix this problem, by making it so that a server that already has a share of a file will not get another share of that same file assigned. You could help by examining Mark's branch — perhaps you could look at

Re: [tahoe-dev] Manual rebalancing in 1.10.0?

2013-09-16 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Dear Kyle: Could you try Mark Berger's #1382 patch on your home grid and tell us if it fixes the problem? https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382# immutable peer selection refactoring and enhancements https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/pull/60 Regards, Zooko __

Re: [tahoe-dev] zfec: bug with m=16 k=13 parameters at certain file length

2013-09-12 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Bodecs Bela wrote: > Ok, I will try tomorrow. If I finish, where or how should I put the altered > code? Well… For now would you just email me a patch? Thanks! Regards, Zooko ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe

Re: [tahoe-dev] zfec: bug with m=16 k=13 parameters at certain file length

2013-09-11 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Dear Bodecs Bela: Thank you very much for finding and fixing this bug! Could you please extend test_zfec.py ¹ so that it will exercise the bug? To do that, I guess you just need to make sure that _help_test_filefec() gets invoked with the right parameters and input length to trigger the bug. Than

Re: [tahoe-dev] reproducible builds for Tahoe-LAFS: where do we start?

2013-08-31 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Okay, following-up to my own post, now I have kind of a confession to make: this is part of why I've been pushing so hard on the source-based distribution of Tahoe-LAFS all these years. The prospect of malware inserted into binaries that get redistributed is one of the reasons why I've tried to mak

[tahoe-dev] reproducible builds for Tahoe-LAFS: where do we start?

2013-08-31 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: Here's some recent news: http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-spy-agencies-mounted-231-offensive-cyber-operations-in-2011-documents-show/2013/08/30/d090a6ae-119e-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html That article says that the U.S. espionage agencies have surreptitiously ins

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS, Tor and Tails

2013-08-23 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > > Are there open bugs and a sketch of what each unit test would look like? Jeff from the I2P project has added the tag "i2p-collab" to all of the tickets that are current blocking their use of Tahoe-LAFS trunk: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac

Re: [tahoe-dev] "Setup.py trial" failure

2013-08-16 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Let's move this conversation from the tahoe-dev mailing list to comments on this bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/434411/ I believe the file doesn't exist because the unit-test-runner rm -rf's the test directory after running the tests. You could edit the source code of:

Re: [tahoe-dev] "Setup.py trial" failure

2013-08-15 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Frank wrote: > What is the recommended approach for diagnosing/correcting this issue? I suspect that it is a problem in the binary build of the pycryptopp or Twisted libraries ("eggs"). Do you know where you got those files? Your logs from when you first ran "pyth

Re: [tahoe-dev] "Setup.py trial" failure

2013-08-15 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
http://tny.cz/4c65796a > File > "/Users/Frank/allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0/support/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Twisted-13.0.0-py2.7-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/twisted/internet/_sslverify.py", > line 101, in _copyFrom > value = getattr(x509name, name, None) > exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec

Re: [tahoe-dev] 回复: Re: [tahoe-lafs] #643: Automatically schedule repair process (and backups?)

2013-08-15 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:41 AM, han zheng wrote: > > I have done something about this. I have written some code for tahoe to > automatically schedule repair process. Hooray! > the basic idea like this: run a monitor service when tahoe client runs, > detect file's health'state when downloading

Re: [tahoe-dev] Random ports

2013-08-12 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Anders Genell wrote: > > We now have seven nodes in our friendnet and can soon start to rely on it as > a long term cloud backup. > > One thing we have noticed is that the nodes sometimes report different ports > in the web interface(s) than what has been set for

Re: [tahoe-dev] What will happen if combine LAFS with Memcached?

2013-07-19 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Steven Lee wrote: > I searched on Internet and found no one has ever been interested in this, so > I think there must be some reasons. The reason nobody has tried it is that just that people don't know about Tahoe-LAFS, or they haven't thought of that idea, or th

Re: [tahoe-dev] unsubsribe

2013-07-18 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Can you fix the list to stop adding reply-to, then? Okay, I've changed this. Now if you reply to a message, and you want your reply to go to the whole list, you have to manually adjust your headers before sending your reply. Let's see how th

Re: [tahoe-dev] unsubsribe

2013-07-18 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > Sorry to see you go! Thank you for participating in the Tahoe-LAFS project. Haha! I'm very amused at myself for accidentally posting to the public list when I meant it to be a private note to Iantcho. Anyway, would every

Re: [tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

2013-07-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Correct: "python setup.py install" will not work without sudo or root privileges. However, "python setup.py build" *will* work without sudo or root privileges. The instructions ¹ do not instruct the user to run "python setup.py install"! However, users often run "python setup.py install" even thou

Re: [tahoe-dev] What's wrong with my test using check_load.py

2013-07-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi there! I haven't heard of anyone using check_load.py ¹ in a long time, and there are no automated tests of it, so it has probably bit-rotted. ¹ https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/src/allmydata/test/check_load.py?annotate=blame&rev=fff237be9a0c4dc5b6c6cdfb596fedc877d748ae I'

Re: [tahoe-dev] Public grid introducer down

2013-07-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Also, apparently the i2p people are maintaining and using their version of the ticket #68 patch. As far as I remember, the blocker for merging #68 is simply that we need someone to volunteer to write a unit test for it. See our discussion in a Weekly Dev Chat where the core devs agreed to support

Re: [tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

2013-07-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Mark Berger wrote: > I can confirm that 'python setup.py build' wiill not run on OSX 10.8 without > sudo. The error message is "error: src/allmydata/_version.py: Permission > denied". This means that the file ./src/allmydata/_version.py was created by a process th

Re: [tahoe-dev] unsubsribe

2013-07-16 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Sorry to see you go! Thank you for participating in the Tahoe-LAFS project. Regards, Zooko ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

2013-07-16 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:12 PM, til wrote: > > ° Tahoe needs several extra Python Software Packages to be installed. Some > of them need to be compiled for your specific platform (Twisted, pyOpenSSL, > zfec, pycrypto, pycryptopp, zope.interface) some of them dont. Since you > need to install addit

[tahoe-dev] Weekly Dev Chat reports 2013-07-09 and 2013-07-16

2013-07-16 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: I never got around to sending my Weekly Dev Chat report for last week, so here is last week's followed by this week's. Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Dev Chat, 2013-07-09 in attendance: Andrew, Brian, Daira, Leif, Amber, Mark, Tariq, Zancas, Zooko (scribe) LeastAuthority.com is about to announce a sec

[tahoe-dev] another possible task for Mark B

2013-07-13 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: Mark B has done a great job on his Google Summer of Code project so far! See his GSoC blog: http://markjberger.blogspot.com/ And my notes from a Weekly Dev Chat: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-July/008486.html Since he has already more or less finished the first two tas

Re: [tahoe-dev] proposal: add padding

2013-07-12 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
No, no, we rely on the correctness of our encryption to hide all information about the plaintext from an attacker who doesn't know the encryption key. Therefore, the pad bytes are all just zero bytes, and we believe that this pattern gives nothing useful to the cryptanalyst. (Our encryption is cur

Re: [tahoe-dev] proposal: add padding

2013-07-12 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > So I think before we add padding as a non-experimental features, we need > > a paper analyzing the block-level-crypto vs encrypted files trade > space, and discussing the understand-file-size threat model I hope such a paper comes out so

Re: [tahoe-dev] proposal: add padding

2013-07-10 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Iraklis . wrote: > That would destroy any dedup service if different random bytes are appended. > Even if the same number of random bytes are appended for equivalent > encryption keys. Or i am missing sth? Hello, Iraklis! Good to hear from you. Let's make all pa

[tahoe-dev] proposal: add padding

2013-07-07 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: I think Tahoe-LAFS should automatically pad files when encrypting them in order to hide the specific length of the file. Avi Freedman just reminded me of this issue in private email conversation, so I finally got around to writing up a proposal that has been nagging me for years (ticket #20

Re: [tahoe-dev] Upload error

2013-07-05 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi Ed. Thanks for the bug report! This looks similar to #1670, so I added a comment to that ticket pointing to this thread. I also marked the bug as important and as threatening data-preservation. I'm sorry that I can't work on this bug more right now, but I'm very busy preparing for an imminent c

Re: [tahoe-dev] Windows install trouble

2013-07-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Mike Nation wrote: > Just confirming one last time that there aren't any ideas as to why I'm > receiving this error when trying to connect to the testgrid: > > c:\allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0>bin\tahoe.pyscript start > > STARTING 'C:\Users\mnation\.tahoe' >

Re: [tahoe-dev] Integration with Kivy

2013-07-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Shakuni Gandhaar wrote: > > I am trying to run the Tahoe-LAFS code in Kivy to make my Android phone a > node in the grid. Cool! > I am running to a number of module dependency issues. Has any one tried this > before, are there any instructions to get the whole T

Re: [tahoe-dev] IP address changed, server now shows as offline

2013-07-03 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Daira Hopwood wrote: > > foolscap sends periodic keepalive messages; an address change should cause > this to fail and the connection to be renegotiated. I don't know the details > well enough to tell why this may not have worked. Foolscap backs-off on the rate of

Re: [tahoe-dev] JavaScript port of zfec

2013-07-01 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Richard Kiss wrote: > Erasure coding fascinates me. > > I ported the zfec command-line tool to JavaScript. It's a bit rough, but it > seems to work. Very cool! Thank you! Next port pycryptopp to JavaScript… ;-) Regards, Zooko ___

Re: [tahoe-dev] friendly hello

2013-06-27 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Greetings, stig atle. Welcome! I look forward to seeing what you come up with! Regards, Zooko ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

[tahoe-dev] how to find out your own IP address

2013-06-26 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > I think removing autodetection of IP address would be a significant > regression for people running storage nodes that might move. Okay, thanks for the feedback. > I think it would be good to figure out what is the problem really. I don't

Re: [tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1988: don't stop the process if you can't execute "ifconfig" or "route.exe"

2013-06-25 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Folks: I'm not very satisfied with the current state of the IP-address-auto-discovery stuff. Yet another new user just mentioned on IRC that they were blocked by some kind of problem with the subprocess invocation of ifconfig. It turned out that in their case ifconfig wasn't on the PATH for non-r

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS on the OLPC XO-4 Touch

2013-06-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Dear Sameer: Cool! Thanks for the note and the nice write-up on your blog! Regards, Zooko ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

Re: [tahoe-dev] Questions about Immutable Uploads

2013-06-16 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
I think the "Introduction to Algorithms" has a succinct description of Edmonds-Karp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Regards, Zooko ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

Re: [tahoe-dev] Questions about Immutable Uploads

2013-06-09 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Mark Berger wrote: > > What uploads shares to their designated servers? In upload.py there is a > mention of bucket writers but I can't seem to find anything else about them. It's awfully hard to see, from looking at the upload.py code [¹], where the actual uploa

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe / Owncloud via SFTP

2013-06-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi t.! How about test the SFTP service directly and make sure that works before trying to connect ownCloud to it? Run the "sftp" client and connect it to the appropriate port, login with the username and password that you configured into the accounts file (per https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-laf

Re: [tahoe-dev] Fwd: I put py-zfec on github

2013-06-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi Richard: Thanks for the note! I'd like to convert the entire zfec history, from darcs, into git, and update the links inside https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/zfec to point into git history instead of darcs history. That's what we've done with Tahoe-LAFS (https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticke

Re: [tahoe-dev] Integration with Kivy

2013-06-07 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Shakuni Gandhaar wrote: > > I am trying to run the Tahoe-LAFS code in Kivy to make my Android phone a > node in the grid. Cool! > I am running to a number of module dependency issues. Has any one tried this > before, are there any instructions to get the whole T

Re: [tahoe-dev] Remove node?

2013-06-07 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Anders Genell wrote: > Hehe, yes, worry is a very human trait :-) > > But I can also imagine some slight practical use in having an up to date > list. We plan to invite friends who are not so very computer savvy, and it > would be good to see if their nodes are su

Re: [tahoe-dev] Remove node?

2013-06-06 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
It doesn't bother the Tahoe-LAFS clients to know about old servers that are no longer connected. The main harm from it is it enlarges the list of known servers and makes humans worry about whether the old long-gone ones are causing some kind of trouble by still being in that list. Regards, Zooko

Re: [tahoe-dev] can't upload a file

2013-05-29 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > The problem turned out to be that I was trying to upload the file with > version 1.8 (on Ubuntu LTS), but my server is running 1.9 (on DragonFly). > When I uploaded the same file from the DragonFly box, it worked. The other > Linux box ha

Re: [tahoe-dev] another tahoe frontend question

2013-05-29 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
tilllt: Thanks for the report! I'm glad to hear that it worked. If anyone reading this wants to help support Tahoe-LAFS on Raspberry Pi, we need someone to build six binary packages for armv6l: ticket #1983. https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1983# build binary eggs for linux-armv6l (

Re: [tahoe-dev] Accepted to GSoC

2013-05-29 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hooray! I'm looking forward to working with you, Mark. Could you kindly tell me again when your classes are finished? This time I'll write it on my calendar. Also, if you can attend Weekly Dev Chats even before your classes are finished, that would probably be a good way to do community bonding and

Re: [tahoe-dev] can't upload a file

2013-05-29 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
This is interesting! Corruption of shares is pretty rare. It would most likely be caused by something like the disk being full when a share was being written, or a program accidentally overwriting parts of the files that contain the shares, or some such. This report you got says that it found four

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe still dumps core

2013-05-27 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Ah, I see that there is already a trac ticket for this issue: #1707 The patch below ought to fix it for you. I've opened a new ticket #1988 to talk about another possible solution. Regards, Zooko https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1707# iputil cannot get local IP addresses on newer D

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoe still dumps core

2013-05-26 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Since the last time I tried, I upgraded the kernel, world, and packages. I > have tahoe-lafs-1.9.2 and python 2.7.3nb3 on DragonFly BSD 32-bit. It still > dumps core when I run "tahoe start .". I put the core dump where Daira could > get it, b

Re: [tahoe-dev] erasure code

2013-05-24 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Yu Xiang wrote: > Hi all, > I see that the tahoe is using (10,3) erasure coding, since the file is > broken into 10 chunks, That's right, but that is configurable. See https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/configuration.rst > does the current

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS Bitcoin Page to restore

2013-05-24 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Yay! It really makes me feel good that people value the Tahoe-LAFS project enough to want to donate to it. I'm not sure what we would do with donation money. One possibility is to pay bounties for people to contribute code. We've done that in the past and it worked well. Anyway, Peter Secor and B

Re: [tahoe-dev] Is TGPPL compatible with Apache license?

2013-05-15 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Randall Mason wrote: > This discussion addresses the use after the one year of the TGPPL. Could > somebody confirm if this is true: > > The period before the one year you can do anything with it, including > releasing complete closed source executables without s

Re: [tahoe-dev] Is TGPPL compatible with Apache license?

2013-05-15 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Greg: Yes, I will continue to distribute zfec under the current terms of either GPLv2-or-newer or TGPPLv1-or-newer at your option. In addition, I intend to add the Apache exemption, so that distributing derived works where the other bits are Apache-licensed is allowed. In a separate letter, you w

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS Users Group Summary

2013-05-15 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Thank you for the notes about the brainstorming of future Tahoe ideas, Tony! This is the one that most caught my attention at the Users Group Meeting: >> - Replace Foolscap with a simplified Tahoe-specific wire protocol ... > In order for tahoe to grow up and be a first-classprotocol, have a w

Re: [tahoe-dev] Is TGPPL compatible with Apache license?

2013-05-14 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Daira Hopwood (formerly David-Sarah) wrote: > >> 1. If we combine TGPPL code with Apache code to create one work derived from >> both TGPPL code and Apache code, can we redistribute such work under Apache >> license only and permanently? > > No. I agree with Da

Re: [tahoe-dev] Is TGPPL compatible with Apache license?

2013-05-11 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
It's so confusing. Yuanz's original question was ambiguous: is he asking whether it is legal to build a derived work out of Apache-licensed (Swift) code combined with GPL-or-TGPPL-licensed (Zfec) code? Or is he asking whether it is legal to build a derived work out of Apache-licensed code, combine

Re: [tahoe-dev] FTP client can't retrieve files and directories

2013-05-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi Mark! I'm sorry it took almost a month to respond to this. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Mark Berger wrote: > > Response: 550 Requested action not taken: internal server error ... > From tahoe's twisted log: > > timed out waiting for DTP connection Please look for Tahoe-LAFS (not

Re: [tahoe-dev] suggestions for the next release

2013-05-02 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
> Unsure, I'd have to see a more concrete proposal. I don't particularly like > the idea of partitioning what developers do from what users do, since then > developers won't be testing the user packaging in the course of normal > development. This is a really good point. It is the exact opposit

Re: [tahoe-dev] suggestions for the next release

2013-05-02 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Jonathan Dill wrote: > As an outsider I'd say make a homepage on vhost www separate from Trac that > is simplified with either tabs or menus in the banner including Downloads. > You can embed content from Trac, you just don't want it to be the main > homepage itself

Re: [tahoe-dev] suggestions for the next release

2013-05-01 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
> * use "1.11" instead of "1.11.0" for the initial release +1 > * rewrite "relnotes.txt": it's almost entirely boilerplate, and (being > in the source tree) cannot contain strong identifiers like hashes of > the release tarballs or the git revision id. What I've done for other > projects is

Re: [tahoe-dev] Just saw tahoe-lafs 1.10 landed on the tahoe-lafs site

2013-05-01 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
> I was wondering if and when ticket #68 is going to land in the trunk? For a long time we core developers — especially Brian — were sort of reluctant to move forward with that, because we intend to make a better, more general thing in the future (https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/NewAcc

Re: [tahoe-dev] ANN: Tahoe-LAFS 1.10 Released!

2013-05-01 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Yay! Thanks to Brian for being Release Manager this time around! Until we update trac to point into git history by default instead of into darcs history, you have to insert a "/git/" into these links to see the current versions: [1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/git/NEWS.rst [2]

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.10 rc2 is tagged

2013-04-26 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi Paul Rabahy, thanks for the bug report! On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Paul Rabahy wrote: > > "c:\users\prabahy\downloads\allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0c2\src\allmydata\storag > e\immutable.py", line 52, in __init__ > fileutil.make_dirs(os.path.dirname(self.home)) > File > "c:\users\prabahy\d

[tahoe-dev] GSoC Idea: Make It Go Faster

2013-04-23 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/GSoCIdeas In case any GSoC students are looking for ideas: Make It Go Faster Tahoe-LAFS is very slow at downloading files. Potential users have been looking at this and then deciding not to use Tahoe-LAFS because they need better performance. Figure ou

Re: [tahoe-dev] GSoC Share Rebalancing and Repair Proposal

2013-04-23 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Dear Mark: Yay! Good proposal! I'm excited about the prospect of getting some focused work on improving repair and rebalancing. There are a lot of different ways that the functionality could be improved. I'm not sure, but I have the _feeling_ that the #1382 that Kevan Carstensen started may be so

[tahoe-dev] lack of clarity about licensing and governance deters contribution

2013-04-23 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
I was pleased about Leif contributing more patches and docs and bug reports recently, but now look! https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1938#comment:2 Leif is apparently deterred from contributing because of the lack of a public declaration of the nature of the Tahoe-LAFS Software Found

Re: [tahoe-dev] Owncloud / Tahoe

2013-04-23 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > I am guessing that he wants file storage space under owncloud (which is among > other things a fileserver) to be backed by tahoe (vs local disk vs some sort > of cloud provider storage). > > The natural thing to do would be to mount a tahoe

Re: [tahoe-dev] Owncloud / Tahoe

2013-04-23 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Hi, t. Welcome! What are you trying to do? I'm very interested in making it easier for people to start using Tahoe-LAFS, but at the moment I don't understand what is complicated about it or if it _is_ actually complicated, or if it just seems intimidating until you try it. Regards, Zooko ___

[tahoe-dev] for your consideration: rename "tahoe backup" to "tahoe snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1952# rename "tahoe backup" to "tahoe snapshot" "tahoe backup" is a good tool! It does a really cool thing. However, it doesn't do "backup". Proof: there is no "tahoe restore". If you were try to simulate "restore" by running "tahoe cp -r", it would be

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