Readings

Questions

Is it worth it??

Pros

Only trust required is own box
Data is highly durable due to file versioning
Information divorced from location
- So long as you can reliably obtain information, it doesn't matter where it is located
Applicable to many data storage situations, not for a specific case
Routing is decentralized
2/3 of network is up? All is available

Cons

Very expensive to computer cryptography (slow generation of keys)
Utility models don't make economic sense, people prefer not to pay for access to their data

Distributed local OS designed for clusters Max size of 4096TB

Pros

Massively parallel - data is striped across many many disks
Therefor read/write is very fast
Option of redundancy
Locking mechanism
- Two options
  - Data shipping
    - Distributed
    - First client to request access to file receives token
    - Other clients must request the current owner of the token
      - The current owner of the file grants portional access to their file (breaks token and gives portion access)
  - Centralized locking
    - Faster in a small disk circumstance
Extreme reliability
- Able to literally remove a hotswap disk and insert a blank one in its place, only to have the blank disk completely regenerate the missing data
- Journalling to record token ownership - helps recovery when node in possession dies

Cons