Changes between Version 3 and Version 6 of Ticket #1838


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2014-02-04T12:16:07Z (11 years ago)
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    99These hints would be non-authoritative because any Storage Server could easily lie about where it is storing the data, but even if all Storage Server were lying it would be no worse than today. The rogue Storage Servers could collude to say they were all using the same storage location, but then the Client would just avoid using more than one of the rogue servers. The rouge Storage Servers could also collude to say the were all using different storage locations (even though the were in the same location), but that simply trick the client back into the current behavior.
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    11 Finally, by adhering to a convention and parsing the string, a hierarchy of locations could be made. For example a company has 2 data centers so they set the hint for their servers as "ABC_DC1_RACK1", "ABC_DC1_RACK2", "ABC_DC2_RACK1", "ABC_DC2_RACK2", etc. (Related discussion https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-April/001555.html)
     11Finally, by adhering to a convention and parsing the string, a hierarchy of locations could be made. For example a company has 2 data centers so they set the hint for their servers as "ABC_DC1_RACK1", "ABC_DC1_RACK2", "ABC_DC2_RACK1", "ABC_DC2_RACK2", etc. (Related discussion [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-April/001555.html])