[tahoe-dev] Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Ideas Needed!

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

On Friday, 2010-03-12, at 15:20 , Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Not sure how they'd find out about each other; perhaps the  
> introducer could do it, but it might be interesting to build a DLM- 
> like thing on top of  a general chordish DHT.

That might be related to #68 (implement distributed introduction,  
remove Introducer as a single point of failure) and #295 (distributed  
control of access to nodes).

> Adding a DHT to Tahoe would be a worthy GSOC project in itself; has  
> it been mentioned?

Well there is #869 (Allow Tahoe filesystem to be run over a different  
key-value-store / DHT implementation), but I guess that's not what  
you mean. What do you mean?

In some sense the immutable files (key = cap, value = file contents),  
and the mutable files (key = cap, value = file contents), and the  
directories (key = path-and-filename, value = file contents) are  
already "distributed hash tables".

Regards,

Zooko

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/68#
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/295# distributed control  
of access to nodes
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/869# Allow Tahoe  
filesystem to be run over a different key-value-store / DHT  
implementation