Tahoe-LAFS

Contents:

• Welcome to Tahoe-LAFS!
  • What is Tahoe-LAFS?
  • What is “provider-independent security”?
  • Access Control
  • Get Started
  • License
• Installing Tahoe-LAFS
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux, BSD, or MacOS
• Building Tahoe-LAFS on Windows
• Building Tahoe-LAFS on Linux
  • Prerequisites
  • Install the Latest Tahoe-LAFS Release
• Building Tahoe-LAFS On A Desert Island
  • How This Works
• How To Run Tahoe-LAFS
  • Introduction
  • Do Stuff With It
  • Socialize
  • Complain
• Magic Wormhole Invites
  • Magic Wormhole
  • Invites and Joins
  • Tahoe-LAFS Secret Exchange
• Configuring a Tahoe-LAFS node
  • Node Types
  • Overall Node Configuration
  • Connection Management
  • Client Configuration
  • Frontend Configuration
  • Storage Server Configuration
  • Storage Server Plugin Configuration
  • Running A Helper
  • Running An Introducer
  • Other Files in BASEDIR
  • 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 File Store Layer
  • Leases, Refreshing, Garbage Collection
  • File Repairer
  • Security
  • Reliability
• The Tahoe-LAFS CLI commands
  • Overview
  • CLI Command Overview
  • Node Management
  • File Store 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 Frontend
  • SFTP Background
  • Tahoe-LAFS Support
  • Creating an Account File
  • Configuring SFTP Access
  • Dependencies
  • Immutable and Mutable Files
  • Known Issues
• 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
• Contributing to Tahoe-LAFS
• 🥳 First Contribution?
• Contributor Code of Conduct
• Release Checklist
  • Any Contributor
  • Privileged Contributor
• Preparing to Authenticate Release (Setting up GPG)
• How To Configure A Server
  • Manual Configuration
  • Automatic Configuration
  • Deployment Scenarios
• Managed Grid
  • Overview and Motivation
  • Grid Manager
  • Grid Manager Data Storage
  • Enrolling a Storage Server: CLI
  • Enrolling a Storage Server: Config
  • Enrolling a Client: Config
  • Example Setup of a New Managed Grid
• 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
• Storage Server Donations
  • Sending Donations
  • Receiving Donations
  • Further Reading
• Expenses paid by donated BTC
  • Budget Items
• Things To Be Careful About As We Venture Boldly Forth
  • Timing Attacks
• Avoiding Write Collisions in Tahoe
• The Tahoe BackupDB
  • Overview
  • Schema
  • Upload Operation
  • Directory Operations
• Developer Guide
  • Pre-commit Checks
• Ticket Triage
  • Process
• 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
  • Using Munin To Graph Stats Values
  • Scraping Stats Values in OpenMetrics Format
• Debian and Ubuntu Support
  • Overview
  • Dependency Packages
• 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
  • URLs
  • Tahoe URIs
  • File Encoding
  • URI Extension Block
  • Mutable Files
  • Tahoe-LAFS Directory Nodes
  • Share Leases
  • Servers of Happiness
  • Upload Strategy of Happiness
  • Redundant Array of Independent Clouds: Share To Cloud Mapping
• Proposed Specifications
  • Lease database design
  • Storage Node Protocol (“Great Black Swamp”, “GBS”)
• Filesystem-specific notes
  • ext3
• Old Configuration Files
• Using Tahoe as a key-value store

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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