improved. (#773)
For other changes not mentioned here, see
-<http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/query?milestone=1.6.0&keywords=!~news-done>.
+<http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/query?milestone=1.6.0&keywords=!~news-done>.
To include the tickets mentioned above, go to
-<http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/query?milestone=1.6.0>.
+<http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/query?milestone=1.6.0>.
* Release 1.5.0 (2009-08-01)
characters in Tahoe v1.3 (although depending on your platform it
might, especially if your platform can be configured to pass such
characters on the command-line in utf-8 encoding). See
-http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/565 for details.
+http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/565 for details.
** Web changes
process. This can be useful if you want to build Tahoe while on an airplane,
a desert island, or other bandwidth-limited environments.
-Similarly, allmydata.org now hosts a "tahoe-deps" tarball which contains the
+Similarly, tahoe-lafs.org now hosts a "tahoe-deps" tarball which contains the
latest versions of all these dependencies. This tarball, located at
-http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/deps/tahoe-deps.tar.gz, can be unpacked in
+http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/deps/tahoe-deps.tar.gz, can be unpacked in
the tahoe source tree (or in its parent directory), and the build process
should satisfy its downloading needs from it instead of reaching out to PyPI.
This can be useful if you want to build Tahoe from a darcs checkout while on
Clients now declare which versions of the protocols they support. This is
part of a new backwards-compatibility system:
-http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Versioning .
+http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Versioning .
The version strings for human inspection (as displayed on the Welcome web
page, and included in logs) now includes a platform identifer (frequently
<body>
<h1>How To Run Tahoe-LAFS</h1>
- <p>This is how to run a Tahoe-LAFS client or a complete Tahoe-LAFS grid. First you
- have to install the Tahoe-LAFS software, as documented in <a
- href="install.html">install.html</a>.</p>
+ <p>This is how to run a Tahoe-LAFS client to connect to an
+ existing grid, or how to set up a complete Tahoe-LAFS grid. First
+ you have to install the Tahoe-LAFS software, as documented
+ in <a href="install.html">install.html</a>.</p>
<p>The <code>tahoe</code> program in the <code>bin</code> directory is
used to create, start, and stop nodes. Each node lives in a separate base
directory, in which there is a configuration file named <code>tahoe.cfg</code>. Nodes
read and write files within this base directory.</p>
- <p>A grid consists of a set of <em>storage nodes</em> and <em>client nodes</em>
- running the Tahoe-LAFS code. There is also an <em>introducer node</em> that
- is responsible for getting the other nodes talking to each other.</p>
+ <p>A grid consists of a set of <em>storage nodes</em>
+ and <em>client nodes</em> (also known as <em>gateway nodes</em>)
+ running the Tahoe-LAFS code. There is also an <em>introducer
+ node</em> that is responsible for getting the other nodes talking
+ to each other. Which grid of storage servers your client will
+ connect to is determined solely by the introducer—if you configure
+ your node to connect to a certain introducer then your node will
+ only use those storage servers provided by that introducer. If you
+ configure your node to connect to a new introducer of your own
+ creation (see below), then your node will not connect to any
+ storage servers until you've created some storage servers and told them
+ to register themselves with that introducer.</p>
<p>If you're getting started we recommend you try connecting to
the <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TestGrid">the
- public test grid</a> as you only need to create a client node.
- When you want to create your own grid you'll need to create the
- introducer and several initial storage nodes (see the note about
- small grids below).</p>
+ public test grid</a>—you will need to create only a gateway node
+ to do that. When you want to create your own grid you'll need to
+ create the introducer and several initial storage nodes (see the
+ note about small grids below).</p>
<p>If the Tahoe-LAFS <code>bin</code> directory is not on your PATH, then
in all the command lines below, specify the full path to <code>bin/tahoe</code>.</p>
<h3>The SFTP and FTP frontends</h3>
<p>You can access your Tahoe-LAFS grid via any <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol">SFTP</a> or
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol">FTP</a> client.
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol">FTP</a> client.
See <a href="frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst">FTP-and-SFTP.rst</a> for how to set this up.
On most Unix platforms, you can also use SFTP to plug Tahoe-LAFS into your computer's
local filesystem via <code>sshfs</code>.
-
+
<p>The <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/SftpFrontend">SftpFrontend</a> page
on the wiki has more information about using SFTP with Tahoe-LAFS.</p>