From: Brian Warner Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:33:56 +0000 (-0700) Subject: NEWS: minor edits X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html//%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4982995f07581cf77ffcfba1848de9329ef5f2fe;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git NEWS: minor edits --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index aeb6d547..fff4b868 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ usability of code which checks/verifies/repairs files and directories. "Checking" is the act of asking storage servers whether they have a share for the given file or directory: if there are not enough shares available, the file/directory will be unrecoverable. "Verifying" is the act of downloading -or cryptographically asserting that the server's share is undamaged: it +and/or cryptographically asserting that the server's share is undamaged: it requires more work (bandwidth and CPU) than checking, but can catch problems that simple checking cannot. "Repair" is the act of replacing missing/damaged shares with new ones. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ together to remove the damaged share. Note that corrupted shares indicate hardware failures, serious software bugs, or malice on the part of the storage server operator, so a corrupted share should be considered highly unusual. The "incident gatherer" mechanism will automatically report share -corruption to an incident gatherer service, if one is pre-configured. +corruption to an incident gatherer service, if one is configured. By periodically checking/repairing all files and directories, objects in the Tahoe filesystem remain resistant to recoverability failures due to missing @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ and deep-check operations. When these operations finish, they display a results page that summarizes any problems that were encountered. All long-running deep-traversal operations, including deep-check, use a start-and-poll mechanism, to avoid depending upon a single long-lived HTTP -connection. docs/webapi.txt has details. +connection. docs/frontends/webapi.txt has details. ** Configuration Changes: single INI-format tahoe.cfg file @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ timeouts (#521). This release adds the 'tahoe create-alias' command, which is a combination of 'tahoe mkdir' and 'tahoe add-alias'. This also allows you to start using a new tahoe directory without exposing its URI in the argv list, which is -publically visible (through the process table) on most unix systems. +publicly visible (through the process table) on most unix systems. The single-argument form of "tahoe put" was changed to create an unlinked file. I.e. "tahoe put bar.txt" will take the contents of a local "bar.txt" @@ -278,11 +278,11 @@ The 12GiB (approximate) immutable-file-size limitation is slowly being lifted. This release knows how to handle so-called "v2 immutable shares", which permit immutable files of up to about 18 EiB (about 3*10^14). These v2 shares are not yet created by default, so that files created with tahoe-1.3.0 -can still be read by earlier versions. In the subsequent release we will -switch to generating v2 shares, so that files created with tahoe-1.4.0 can be -read by tahoe-1.3.0 and later. Note that the storage server must also be -changed to support files larger than 12GiB, and that these changes have not -yet been implemented. (ticket #346) +can still be read by earlier versions. In the next release we will switch to +generating v2 shares, so that files created with tahoe-1.4.0 can be read by +tahoe-1.3.0 and later. Note that the storage server must also be changed to +support files larger than 12GiB, and that these changes have not yet been +implemented. (ticket #346) Tahoe now uses Foolscap "Incidents", writing an "incident report" file to logs/incidents/ each time something weird occurs. These reports are available @@ -297,10 +297,10 @@ These reports are written to files in BASEDIR/storage/corruption-advisories . The 'nickname' setting is now defined to be a UTF-8 -encoded string, allowing non-ascii nicknames. -The 'tahoe start' command will now pass a --syslog argument through to -twistd, making it easier to launch non-Tahoe nodes (like the cpu-watcher) and -have them log to syslogd instead of a local file. This is useful when running -a Tahoe node out of a USB flash drive. +The 'tahoe start' command will now accept a --syslog argument and pass it +through to twistd, making it easier to launch non-Tahoe nodes (like the +cpu-watcher) and have them log to syslogd instead of a local file. This is +useful when running a Tahoe node out of a USB flash drive. Tahoe now includes experimental FTP and SFTP servers. When configured with a suitable method to translate username+password into a root directory cap, it