Introducing the Infinit file system
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Introducing the Infinit file system
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Re: Introducing the Infinit file system
#2my bandwidth kills things like this. I have so little upload in the US that I can't host anything and still have a usable network connection
Re: Introducing the Infinit file system
#3Thanks for creating Infinit! I think its great that you have end user usability in mind when building the filesystem.
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#4Really cool! Do you know how it compares to the research project Farsite from Microsoft? http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/showpage.aspx?page...
Sounds really similar (but productized).
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#5Really cool, but I use NixOS for everything. You mentioned it's open source so--want to help me package it?
It's probably not very hard.
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#6This looks awesome!
I can't find anything in the docs on data resiliency - if i add a storage node and it later becomes unavailable, is data distributed across other nodes? how many nodes can fail?
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#7my bandwidth kills things like this. I have so little upload in the US that I can't host anything and still have a usable network connection
If upload interferes with download, you may be experiencing bufferbloat. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/17883
Re: Introducing the Infinit file system
#8Looks cool but I get a bad gateway error when I try to set up an account :-(
Re: Introducing the Infinit file system
#9This looks really great and I love the direction. Hopefully they're working on making it more consumer-friendly. ;)
Questions:
1. They say that "While most solutions (Dropbox, GlusterFS, OwnCloud etc.) store your files unprotected in the cloud or on a specific server, we took a diametrically opposed direction by relying heavily on encryption. Whenever a file is stored in Infinit, it is cut into chunks, every chunk is encrypted with a unique key (AES-256) and stored, providing both encryption at rest and in transit."
Isn't that actually a lot like Dropbox? (https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/27)
2. How stable is FUSE for OS X? Last time I used it (couple of years) was for SSHFS and it was unstable and crashed the machine every now and then.
Re: Introducing the Infinit file system
#10This looks really great and I love the direction. Hopefully they're working on making it more consumer-friendly. ;) Questions: 1. They say that "While most solutions (Dropbox, GlusterFS, OwnCloud etc.) store your files unprotected in the cloud or on a specific server, we took a diametrically opposed direction by relying heavily on encryption. Whenever a file is stored in Infinit, it is cut into chunks, every chunk is…
I think the big difference they're implying (though I haven't been able to actually /verify/ the implication yet) is that Dropbox holds the keys to decrypt that content. Infinit doesn't.