[cap-talk] ANNOUNCING Allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.1

[Rob Meijer]

On Wed, June 11, 2008 23:56, zooko wrote:
> ANNOUNCING Allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.1
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> http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html
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I just skimmed some of the pages.
I see two technologies mentioned, that I until now assumed incompatible.

You, as I in my MinorFs project, seem to be using the Fuse user space file
system library/kernel module. Using user space filesystems, running as
unprivileged users (and if possible under a strict AppArmor profile),
seems to me indeed the only way to build file systems that adheres to POLA.

When skimming your pages however, I found a mention of being able to build
and run your file system under Cygwin. This currently confuses me quite a
bit. Given that to my knowledge, Fuse is a Linux/BSD only thing, and
windows /cygwin has no AppArmor alternative, I am very interested in
learning how you managed to create a (user space ?) file system that
builds and runs on CygWin/Windows. Given such possibilities, I would very
much like to investigate if my MinorFs project also could possibly be made
portable to Cygwin/Windows in such a way.

Rob