Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of ServerSelection

Timestamp:

2011-05-11T04:17:10Z (14 years ago)

Author:

zooko

Comment:

add Brian Parma's use case

ServerSelection

@@ -15 +15 @@
   * John Case wrote a letter to tahoe-dev asking for this feature and comparing it to the concept of "families" in the Tor project: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-April/006301.html
 As I have emphasized a few times, we really should not try to write a super-clever algorithm into Tahoe which satisfies all of these people, plus all the other crazy people that will be using Tahoe-LAFS for other things in the future.  Instead, we need some sort of configuration language or plugin system so that each crazy person can customize their own crazy server selection policy.  I don't know the best way to implement this yet -- a domain specific language?  Implement the above-mentioned list of seven policies into Tahoe-LAFS and have an option to choose which of the seven you want for this upload?  My current favorite approach is: you give me a Python function.  When the time comes to upload a file, I'll call that function and then use whichever servers it said to use.
+ * Brian Parma wants to share storage with one other person, and have all of his files stored on their server and vice versa. (Since he already has local copies of his files, so there's no value to him in storing his files on his server.)
 
 ==== Brian says: ====