Changes between Version 89 and Version 90 of FAQ


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2013-04-23T18:17:56Z (11 years ago)
Author:
zooko
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clarify about fuse performance issues

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    164 Yes. Tahoe-LAFS comes with an [source:git/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst SFTP server]. If you point [http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html sshfs] at the SFTP server then you have access to Tahoe-LAFS through FUSE. Alternately, [wiki:pyFilesystem pyfilesystem] interfaces directly with Tahoe-LAFS through the latter's [source:git/docs/frontends/webapi.rst WAPI] and provides both FUSE and Microsoft Windows filesystem access. See #1353 for discussion of possible improvements to FUSE integration. See [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2011-November/003162.html Zooko's post to freedombox-discuss] and [https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/ZrgdgLhV3NG Zooko's post to Google+] for Zooko's ramblings about the advisability of using FUSE for distributed filesystems in general and Tahoe-LAFS in particular.
     164Yes. Tahoe-LAFS comes with an [source:git/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst SFTP server]. If you point [http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html sshfs] at the SFTP server then you have access to Tahoe-LAFS through FUSE. Alternately, [wiki:pyFilesystem pyfilesystem] interfaces directly with Tahoe-LAFS through the latter's [source:git/docs/frontends/webapi.rst WAPI] and provides both FUSE and Microsoft Windows filesystem access. See #1353 for discussion of possible improvements to FUSE integration.
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     166There could be performance problems with the FUSE interface if the apps that are using the filesystem use it in a way that doesn't fit Tahoe-LAFS's semantics, and the FUSE layer is required to make many copies of entire files in order to simulate the desired semantics. See [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2011-November/003162.html Zooko's post to freedombox-discuss] and [https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/ZrgdgLhV3NG Zooko's post to Google+].
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    166168'''[=#Q24_smallgrid Q24:] How I should setup k,h,N on my small private grid?''