Tahoe-LAFS

Contents:

• Welcome to Tahoe-LAFS!
  • What is Tahoe-LAFS?
  • What is “provider-independent security”?
  • Access Control
  • Get Started
  • License
• Installing Tahoe-LAFS
  • First: In Case Of Trouble
  • Pre-Packaged Versions
  • Preliminaries
  • Install the Latest Tahoe-LAFS Release
  • Running the tahoe executable
  • Running the Self-Tests
  • Common Problems
  • Using Tahoe-LAFS
• How To Run Tahoe-LAFS
  • Introduction
  • Do Stuff With It
  • Socialize
  • Complain
• Configuring a Tahoe-LAFS node
  • Node Types
  • Overall Node Configuration
  • Connection Management
  • Client Configuration
  • Frontend Configuration
  • Storage Server Configuration
  • Running A Helper
  • Running An Introducer
  • Other Files in BASEDIR
  • Additional Introducer Definitions
  • Static Server Definitions
  • Other files
  • Example
  • Old Configuration Files
• Tahoe-LAFS Architecture
  • Overview
  • The Key-Value Store
  • File Encoding
  • Capabilities
  • Server Selection
  • Swarming Download, Trickling Upload
  • The Filesystem Layer
  • Leases, Refreshing, Garbage Collection
  • File Repairer
  • Security
  • Reliability
• The Tahoe-LAFS CLI commands
  • Overview
  • CLI Command Overview
  • Node Management
  • Filesystem Manipulation
  • Storage Grid Maintenance
  • Debugging
• The Tahoe REST-ful Web API
  • Enabling the web-API port
  • Basic Concepts: GET, PUT, DELETE, POST
  • URLs
  • Slow Operations, Progress, and Cancelling
  • Programmatic Operations
  • Browser Operations: Human-oriented interfaces
  • Other Useful Pages
  • Static Files in /public_html
  • Safety and Security Issues – Names vs. URIs
  • Concurrency Issues
  • Access Blacklist
  • URLs and HTTP and UTF-8
• Tahoe-LAFS SFTP and FTP Frontends
  • SFTP/FTP Background
  • Tahoe-LAFS Support
  • Creating an Account File
  • Running An Account Server (accounts.url)
  • Configuring SFTP Access
  • Configuring FTP Access
  • Dependencies
  • Immutable and Mutable Files
  • Known Issues
• Tahoe-LAFS Magic Folder Frontend
  • Introduction
  • Configuration
  • Known Issues and Limitations With Magic-Folder
• Download status
  • Introduction
  • What’s involved in a download?
  • Data on the download-status page
• Known Issues
  • Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.10.3, released 30-Mar-2016
  • Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0, released 31-Oct-2011
  • Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.2, released 30-Jan-2011
• How To Configure A Server
  • Manual Configuration
  • Automatic Configuration
  • Deployment Scenarios
• The Tahoe Upload Helper
  • Overview
  • Setting Up A Helper
  • Using a Helper
  • Other Helper Modes
• The Convergence Secret
  • What Is It?
  • What If I Change My Convergence Secret?
  • How To Use It
• Garbage Collection in Tahoe
  • Overview
  • Client-side Renewal
  • Server Side Expiration
  • Expiration Progress
  • Future Directions
• Statement on Backdoors
• Donations
  • Governance
  • Transparent Accounting
  • Expenditure Addresses
  • Historical Donation Addresses
  • Validation
• Expenses paid by donated BTC
  • Budget Items
• Things To Be Careful About As We Venture Boldly Forth
  • Timing Attacks
• Avoiding Write Collisions in Tahoe
• Magic Folder Set-up Howto
  • This document
  • Setting up a local test grid
  • Setting up Magic Folder
  • Testing
  • Configuration
• The Tahoe BackupDB
  • Overview
  • Schema
  • Upload Operation
  • Directory Operations
• Using Tahoe-LAFS with an anonymizing network: Tor, I2P
  • Overview
  • Use cases
  • Software Dependencies
  • Connection configuration
  • Anonymity configuration
  • Performance and security issues
• Node Keys in Tahoe-LAFS
  • Why Announcements Are Signed
  • How The Node ID Is Computed
  • Version Compatibility, Fallbacks For Old Versions
  • Share Placement
• Performance costs for some common operations
  • Publishing an A-byte immutable file
  • Publishing an A-byte mutable file
  • Downloading B bytes of an A-byte immutable file
  • Downloading B bytes of an A-byte mutable file
  • Modifying B bytes of an A-byte mutable file
  • Inserting/Removing B bytes in an A-byte mutable file
  • Adding an entry to an A-entry directory
  • Listing an A entry directory
  • Checking an A-byte file
  • Verifying an A-byte file (immutable)
  • Verifying an A-byte file (mutable)
  • Repairing an A-byte file (mutable or immutable)
• Tahoe Logging
  • Overview
  • Realtime Logging
  • Incidents
  • Working with flogfiles
  • Gatherers
  • Adding log messages
  • Log Messages During Unit Tests
• Tahoe Statistics
  • Overview
  • Statistics Categories
  • Running a Tahoe Stats-Gatherer Service
  • Using Munin To Graph Stats Values
• How To Build Tahoe-LAFS On A Desert Island
  • How This Works
• Debian and Ubuntu Support
  • Overview
  • Dependency Packages
• Building Tahoe-LAFS on Windows
  • Preliminaries
  • Installation
  • Running Tahoe-LAFS
  • Installing A Different Version
  • Dependencies
• OS-X Packaging
• Building pyOpenSSL on Windows
  • Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for Python 2.7
  • Download and install Perl
  • Download and install the latest OpenSSL version
  • Building PyOpenSSL
• Specifications
  • Specification Document Outline
  • Tahoe URIs
  • File Encoding
  • URI Extension Block
  • Mutable Files
  • Tahoe-LAFS Directory Nodes
  • Servers of Happiness
  • Redundant Array of Independent Clouds: Share To Cloud Mapping
• Proposed Specifications
  • Lease database design
  • Magic Folder local filesystem integration design
  • Magic Folder design for remote-to-local sync
  • Magic Folder user interface design
  • Multi-party Conflict Detection
  • Summary and definitions
  • Leif’s Proposal: Magic-Folder “single-file” snapshot design
  • Zooko’s Design (as interpreted by Daira)
• Filesystem-specific notes
  • ext3
• Old Configuration Files
• Using Tahoe as a key-value store

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page