28 | | * [source:docs/ the docs/ directory] <-- most core doc is in the source tree here |
29 | | * [wiki:Capabilities]: what are readcaps and writecaps and verifycaps, etc |
| 28 | |
| 29 | === Design of the System === |
| 30 | * [http://code.google.com/p/nilestore/wiki/TahoeLAFSBasics TahoeLAFSBasics] on the NileStore Project's site. This document was written by someone from another project who hasn't really interacted with the Tahoe-LAFS developers much, but it is the best overall introduction to the design of Tahoe-LAFS. |
| 31 | * after that, look at the "Presentations / Papers", below, or at the "architecture.rst" file in the docs/ directory. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | === Presentations / Papers === |
| 34 | * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/wiki/News/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf] presented at RSA 2010 |
| 35 | * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/lafs.pdf Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem] presented at [http://storagess.org/2008 Storage Security and Survivability '08] |
| 36 | * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html Tahoe: A Secure Distributed Filesystem] presented at |
| 37 | [http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/ PyCon2008], |
| 38 | providing an overview of the Tahoe-LAFS design, and the |
| 39 | [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe-slides.zip slides] (.zip) that |
| 40 | were used for the presentation |
| 41 | * [http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2009.html A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage] to be presented at [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09 FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | === How To Contribute To The Tahoe-LAFS Project === |