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Documentation
The Basics
- architecture.txt, explaining the design decisions that have given the grid its current shape
- roadmap.txt, showing how the functionality has been incrementally improved so far, and what improvements we plan to make next
- codemap.txt, laying out the software design and the organization of the source code
- UseCases, enumerating the ways in which Tahoe should be usefula
The Parade of Release Notes
- the release notes announcing the first public release on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists
- the release notes announcing the second public release on June 6, 2007
- the release notes announcing the third public release on June 29, 2007, including the new mutable, shareable, private directories
Detailed Design Docs
- TahoeIssues/FileTree?, explaining how mutable, shareable, private directories are implemented (which requires interesting crypto)
- TahoeIssues/FileEncoding?, explaining how we turn files into shares, with verifiable hashes; This is mostly concerned with chunking and Merkle trees.
- TahoeIssues/ShareEncoding?, explaining how we turn a chunk into shares: Reed-Solomon, FEC, that stuff
Outstanding Issues
- PeerSelection, explaining how a Tahoe node chooses which other nodes to use for uploading and downloading files (which raises some unsolved issues in balancing scalability, robustness, performance, and simplicity)
- TahoeIssues/ChangingFilesWhileCopyingThem? : what are the semantics of the "upload" action? the upload takes non-zero time: what happens if the file is changed during that time?