[tahoe-dev] some questions about tahoe-lafs

[Avi Freedman]

I understand that opinion but I don't believe that will enable the
largest growth of the LAFS-ecosystem.

Maybe I'm wrong but I think the large mass of users will remain
locked out of being able to install and configure daemons - but
finding 10s or 100s providers to use that can offer S3, SWIFT, or
is doable now - and doesn't diminish the market that (I think)
LeastAuthority and Havenco are trying to address.

As I said we'll summarize LAFS-related user feedback and in the
mean time just try to help augment install and basic usage FAQs.

Avi

(Greg wrote:)

> freedman at freedman.net (Avi Freedman) writes:
> 
> > Right now I think you have to do FUSE mounts of S3 or webdav or something
> > else and run the storage node on top of that but longer term I think
> > being able to support no-software-install standard-protocol backend
> > nodes as an option would be great for LAFS.
> 
> This is IMHO a serious technical step backwards.  We have standard
> interfaces and a narrow waist for filesystem interfaces, much like IP,
> which means that tahoe does not need to know about all of these
> backends.