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

[zooko]

On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:29 PM, Rob Meijer wrote:

>> http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html
>
> I just skimmed some of the pages.
> I see two technologies mentioned, that I until now assumed  
> incompatible.
...
> Fuse user space file system library/kernel module.
...
> Cygwin
...
> 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.

The FUSE interface doesn't work on cygwin, but Tahoe (LAFS) can be  
used through other interfaces.

The standard way to use Tahoe right now is the "wapi" (which I  
pronounce "wappy"): [1] .  The wapi is a RESTful interface and comes  
with a free wui ("wooey").

The FUSE interface is of great interest to many people, apparently,  
but it is not mature.  (There are three separate implementations,  
none of which has good test coverage.)

Another good way to use Tahoe would be through the "foolscap" secure  
remote object protocol.  Foolscap is modelled on the E remote object  
protocol.  It is implemented only in Python.

Of these, only the FUSE ones don't work on cygwin.

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/webapi.txt