April

[meejah]

Hello Tahoe,

I was somewhat distracted in April as a FIRST FTC robot team I mentor made it to worlds!

There has been some opportunistic testing of Tahoe for a 25GB use-case, as I need to get some Trac data to the person looking at moving to a different code/issue hosting service.

This has shown that Tahoe itself can achieve "decent" throughput on larger files but suffers with smaller files, the difference being transferring "MiB/s" on big files but only in the "KiB/s" range on smaller ones.
Magic Folder -- partially because it has many smaller files -- also suffers here.

On the positive front, some parallelism opportunities in magic-folder help significantly, and the startup experience has been improved greatly (i.e. re-starting when there are "tens of thousands" of un-synchronized local Snapshots).

I also wrote a utility (called "booth" currently) to redeem private.storage ZKAP vouchers into a local Tahoe client directly (instead of only via the GridSync-based GUI).
If this is of use to anyone I will release it; currently it hasn't been pushed anywhere public.

I have also been working on improving Dilation usability, giving better feedback to the user about what state it is in (e.g. connected, re-connecting).
The tool "fowl" also gives better information about current bandwidth of forwarded connections.

A lot of "fowl" testing has been ad-hoc, so I am trying to formalize good ways to test various network scenarios in a realistic way (e.g. "laptop goes to sleep" or "WiFi goes down, and comes back up at a different IP").

Earlier this month I also made some minor progress on reviving the Haskell magic-wormhole project.
The "resolve conflicts" branch in magic-wormhole has received some more polish (and test-coverage), which should be ready for merge soon!

The channels #tahoe-lafs and #magic-wormhole on the Libera IRC network are the best ways to connect (https://libera.chat/)

-- 
meejah
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