From 1c2bd0c8212d0e4c3b45505527d114174ecd7692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zooko <> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:19:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add ideas [Imported from Trac: page GSoCIdeas2010, version 37] --- GSoCIdeas2010.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/GSoCIdeas2010.md b/GSoCIdeas2010.md index 195610b..6435699 100644 --- a/GSoCIdeas2010.md +++ b/GSoCIdeas2010.md @@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ ## Improvements to Tahoe * Dealing with NAT, ideally making it as easy to ignore as possible (taking advantage of upnp-igd and Zeroconf NAT-PMP). - * Opportunistic grid membership: + * grid membership and server selection: * Dynamically migrate shares to maintain file health. * Use Zeroconf or similar so nodes can find each other on a local network to enable quick local share migration. - * Deal with unreliable nodes and connections in general, getting away from allmydata's assumption that the grid is a big collection of reliable machines in a colo under a single administrative jurisdiction + * Deal with unreliable nodes and connections in general, getting away from allmydata's assumption that the grid is a big collection of reliable machines in a colo under a single administrative jurisdiction + * Abstract out the server selection part of Tahoe so that the projects in this "grid membership and server selection" can be mostly independent of the rest of Tahoe. See also [this note about standardization of LAFS](http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#2009-02-06). * 'tahoe sync'. The proposed #601 bidirectional sync option would be great for using tahoe as we would with dropbox (). Like the latter, the user could have a daemon which keeps things in sync in pollings within a one or two seconds schedule (maybe using inotify for uploads). In practical terms an user could have many machines pointing to the same tahoe:dir, each machine mapping this resource to a local directory, and all these machines could then have their local copies in sync, via tahoe:dir. I think this is good when someone has many machines and alternates use between them, like a notebook, a home desktop and an office desktop, for instance. * Optimize upload/download transfer speed. * Implement storage server protocol over HTTP.