Tahoe-LAFS

Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open decentralized storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire file store continues to function correctly, preserving your privacy and security.

Getting Started with Tahoe-LAFS

• Welcome to Tahoe-LAFS!
• Installing Tahoe-LAFS
• How To Run Tahoe-LAFS
• Configuring a Tahoe-LAFS node
• How To Configure A Server
• The Tahoe-LAFS CLI commands
• Tahoe-LAFS SFTP Frontend
• Download status
• Magic Wormhole Invites
• Using Tahoe-LAFS with an anonymizing network: Tor, I2P
• Known Issues

Tahoe-LAFS in Depth

• Tahoe-LAFS Architecture
• Preparing to Authenticate Release (Setting up GPG)
• How To Configure A Server
• Managed Grid
• The Tahoe Upload Helper
• The Convergence Secret
• Garbage Collection in Tahoe
• Filesystem-specific notes
• Using Tahoe as a key-value store
• The Tahoe REST-ful Web API
• Avoiding Write Collisions in Tahoe
• Things To Be Careful About As We Venture Boldly Forth
• The Tahoe BackupDB
• Node Keys in Tahoe-LAFS
• Performance costs for some common operations
• Tahoe Logging
• Tahoe Statistics

Specifications

• Specifications
• Proposed Specifications

Contributing to Tahoe-LAFS

• Contributing to Tahoe-LAFS
• 🥳 First Contribution?
• Contributor Code of Conduct
• Building Tahoe-LAFS on Windows
• Building Tahoe-LAFS on Linux
• Building Tahoe-LAFS On A Desert Island
• Developer Guide
• Ticket Triage
• Release Checklist

Notes of Community Interest

• Statement on Backdoors
• Donations
• Storage Server Donations
• Expenses paid by donated BTC

Notes of Historical Interest

• Old Configuration Files
• Debian and Ubuntu Support
• Building pyOpenSSL on Windows