Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 40, October 21 2012

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Announcement and News

Tahoe-LAFS Turning Six

Zooko zooko announced Boulder, CO will host a Tahoe-LAFS sixth birthday this Saturday. We will use Google Hangouts to connect parties in other locations. If you are using a Google Hangout, please ensure the Hangout works prior to Saturday. Zooko and Least Authority Enterprise Least Authority Enterprises offered to supply party shirts. All you need to do is sign up for Least Authority Enterprise and show up at a physical party location.

I won't be able to celebrate this year as I will be celebrating my good friend's wedding, the same day. I would love to see pictures and thoughts regarding the various parties.

IPv6 Support

Eugen Leitl inquired on IPv6 support in Tahoe-LAFS. Particularly he wanted to try and run it over cjdns. Currently, Tahoe-LAFS does not support IPv6 yet. #867 covers implementing IPv6 on Tahoe-LAFS. Foolscap ticket #155 blocks the previous ticket. Twisted ticket, #3014 blocks the Foolscap ticket.

From the tahoe-dev Mailing List

lafs-backup-tool, an alternative to "tahoe backup"

Mike Kazantsev announced lafs-backup-tool. From the README, lafs-backup-tool's "Intended use-case is to push most important (chosen by human) parts of already existing and static backups (stored as file trees) to lafs cloud backends." Lafs-backup-tool includes the following features which are not included in tahoe_backup.py: compression, metadata, symlinks, include and exc lude regex lists, more verbose logging and rate limiting.

Thoughts from the Scribe

This week I had a fantastic discussion with Drew Perttula. Drew and I discussed the performance metrics of PogoPlugs running Tahoe-LAFS. I am interested in building a Tahoe-LAFS storage grid on embedded devices as a means of cutting costs and power. Drew is exploring Raspberry Pi as an alternative. On a shopping trip to Costco, I discovered Western Digital MyBook Live which runs Debian Linux. I plan on purchasing on of these this Christmas to be one of Tahoe-LAFS nodes. I am interested if anyone else is running Tahoe-LAFS on a similar device. Please let us know. Drew, thanks for taking the time to chat with me on this. I look forward to sharing my results with you and reading yours.

In addition, Drew provides one of the best illustrations of Tahoe-LAFS, I have experienced the pleasure to witness. I would love to see this incorporated into the Tahoe-LAFS web site.

Glowing Quotes

Happy to see that @zooko's request to show the TWN author some love had the desired effect - Dirk Loss

Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter

@KimDotcom Why not use Tahoe-LAFS? Use my disk space, give me premium credit in return? Distributed secure and UNRAIDIBLE ;) [0]

Had enough of this, I'm setting up a #tahoe-lafs grid, who's with me? Or have done it yourselves? [1]

@tahoelafs have you ever considered doing GSoC? [2]

The second-ever blog (after mine) which is a web app served from secure, fault-tolerant storage: http://identi.ca/url/73958251 [3]

Patches Needing Review of the Week

There are four (4) ticket still needing review for 1.10.0:

There are three (3) tickets still needing review of 1.11.0:

The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor peter . Scribes: Patrick "marlowe" McDonald marlowe , Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn , Editor Emeritus: Zooko. View TWN on the web or subscribe to TWN . Send your news stories to marlowe@antagonism.org — submission deadline: Friday night.