another distributed filesystem

David Vorick david.vorick at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 19:58:14 UTC 2014


What encourages people to be hosts on distributed file systems?

Is Tahoe massively scalable and decentralized, or is it just distributed?

And finally, can someone post a list of the most promising/popular
distributed filesystems being developed?


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Justin Stottlemyer <
justin.h.stottlemyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah,
>     There are several distributed FS's right now, Almost all are currently
> replication based with relatively low small amounts of security compared
> TAHOE.
>
> That said, both CEPH and SWIFT are both racing to incorporate erasure
> coding.
>
>
> Neither will allow for the same type or level of encryption as Tahoe, but
> these massively scalable open source systems are coming along and will
> probably offer some good ideas along the way.
>
> ORI is a new one to me, I'll be digging into it some. Thanks for posting
> it to the group.
>
>
> -- Justin
>
> Typos by iPhone
>
> On Feb 16, 2014, at 4:32 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
> > This seems very interesting, but seems to lack the LA part.
> >
> > http://ori.scs.stanford.edu/
> >
> > Perhaps a FUSE layered fs that does the LA part of tahoe without the
> > replication part would be useful as an adjunct.  Essentially, still have
> > caps and encryption, but use 1-of-1 encoding and just put shares in one
> > place, via filesystem operations.
> >
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