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		dhouston on March 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tahoe: A Secure Distributed Filesystem what's the latency like? there's no way these things can feel like local filesystems.

wmf on March 28, 2008 [–]

It's for backup; the latency is mostly irrelevant. Tahoe sounds cool, but I think it's a stretch to call it a filesystem.

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