Proposed Specifications

This directory is where we hold design notes about upcoming/proposed features. Usually this is kept in tickets on the bug tracker, but sometimes we put this directly into the source tree.

Most of these files are plain text, should be read from a source tree. This index only lists the files that are in .rst format.

• Lease database design
  • Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Design constraints
  • Accounting crawler
  • Accounts
  • Share states
  • State transitions
  • Unresolved design issues
  • Future directions
• Magic Folder local filesystem integration design
• Magic Folder design for remote-to-local sync
  • Scope
  • Representing the Magic Folder in Tahoe-LAFS
  • Conflict Detection and Resolution
  • Summary
• Magic Folder user interface design
  • Scope
  • Design Constraints
  • Proposed Design
  • Discussion
• Multi-party Conflict Detection
• Summary and definitions
• Leif’s Proposal: Magic-Folder “single-file” snapshot design
  • Abstract
  • Motivation:
  • Glossary
  • Overview
  • Tahoe-LAFS snapshot objects
  • Snapshot Author Identity
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Deletion propagation and eventual Garbage Collection
  • Performance Considerations
  • Local Merge Property
• Zooko’s Design (as interpreted by Daira)