On 8/26/11 5:40 AM, Michael Rogers wrote:

If you want to know what's actually standing in the way of a global p2p filesystem, try to persuade your technically minded friends to use Tahoe (or Freenet, or OceanStore, or CFS, or PAST, or FARSITE) for sharing files. Make a note of the problems they run into and solve them all. Repeat the process with your less technically minded friends. Once you've solved all their problems, open some champagne because you've achieved more than a decade's worth of p2p research. ;-)

It would be a shame to solve all the practical problems and only then discover that your architecture is wrong. :-) That's why I think people are interested in doing thought experiments first. (OTOH, it's kind of pointless to discover the right architecture if you'll never have the resources to implement it right.) Personally, the TFS paper convinced me to give up on P2P storage until we get FTTH. http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/TFS.pdf Wes Felter _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE