> So what's the plan for Tahoe, Zooko? Are you working on getting it
> bundled with unix distributions? Is your strategy to aim at low-churn
> servers or high-churn clients?

So, yeah, allmydata.com stopped funding new Tahoe development a few
months ago [1]. Tahoe, the Longlived Axe-tolerant File System, is now
a purely volunteer-driven community project. The current version is
already functional and reliable -- it has been in production use in
allmydata.com for more than a year, storing all of the allmydata.com
customer files. Our goals do indeed focus on getting Tahoe included
in Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Ubuntu this summer [2].

I'm not sure I understand your question about churning servers and
clients. Tahoe is explicitly designed for low-churn servers -- I've
become increasingly skeptical of the whole notion of relying on
high-churn servers for reliable long-term storage. They don't have to
be expensive reliable servers, though -- allmydata.com uses cheap
commodity servers and other Tahoe deployments use people's home PCs.

The issue of "churn" is irrelevant to Tahoe clients -- nobody else
relies on other clients so they can come and go as they please.

Thanks for asking!

[1] http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-March/001461.html #
tahoe needs funding! (and Zooko is available for work!)
[2] http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-April/001627.html #
questions about development priorities for Tahoe-LAFS, summer 2009