From 81ccaa36529f6d9171176b9f6b574d481af317ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: daira <>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:10:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] IDAs have different security properties to erasure coding

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 **<a name="Q0_what_is_it">Q0:</a> What is Tahoe-LAFS? What can you do with it?**
 
-A: Think of Tahoe-LAFS as being like [BitTorrent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent), except you can upload as well as download. Also, Tahoe-LAFS has directories and files so that if you're looking at a directory that is stored in Tahoe-LAFS, you can navigate to a file or sub-directory that is also in Tahoe-LAFS. So in that sense it is a little more like a filesystem than BitTorrent is. Tahoe-LAFS comes with filesystem integration for Unix (FUSE) and for Windows—see [#Q23_FUSE Q23], below.
+A: Think of Tahoe-LAFS as being like [BitTorrent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent), except you can upload as well as download. Also, Tahoe-LAFS has directories and files so that if you're looking at a directory that is stored in Tahoe-LAFS, you can navigate to a file or sub-directory that is also in Tahoe-LAFS. So in that sense it is a little more like a filesystem than BitTorrent is. Tahoe-LAFS also allows filesystem integration for Unix via sshfs.
 
 **<a name="Q1_why_tahoe_lafs">Q1:</a> What is special about Tahoe-LAFS? Why should anyone care about it instead of [other distributed storage systems](RelatedProjects#OtherProjects)?**
 
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ A: You know how with RAID-5 you can lose any one drive and still recover?  And t
 
 This uses an amount of space on each server equal to the total size of your data divided by `K`.
 
-The default Tahoe-LAFS parameters are `3-of-10`, so the data is spread over 10 different drives, and you can lose any 7 of them and still recover the entire data.  This gives much better reliability than comparable RAID setups, at a cost of only 3.3 times the storage space that a single copy takes.  It takes about 3.3 times the storage space, because it uses space on each server needs equal to 1/3 of the size of the data and there are 10 servers.
+The default Tahoe-LAFS parameters are `3-of-10`, so the data is spread over 10 different drives, and you can lose any 7 of them and still recover the entire data.  This gives much better reliability than comparable RAID setups, at a cost of only 3.3 times the storage space that a single copy takes.  It takes about 3.3 times the storage space, because it uses space on each server equal to 1/3 of the size of the data, and there are 10 servers.
 
-Erasure coding is also known as "forward error correction" and as an "information dispersal algorithm".
+Erasure coding is also known as "forward error correction".
 
 **<a name="Q3_disable_encryption">Q3:</a> Is there a way to disable the encryption for content which isn't secret? Won't that save a lot of CPU cycles?**