On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Lucas Gonze <lucas@...> wrote:
>
> This makes me think of a hybrid model where there's a coop of businesses
> or sophisticated friends. Maybe 5-100 companies.

Yeah! Because a company is more reliable and available and has a lot
more capital than one of your friends, but you don't want to put all
your eggs in one corporate basket.


> What's the latency like? How does it feel on an application level to
> use this instead of a typical SAN?

Hm, well here are some measurements:

http://allmydata.org/tahoe-figleaf-graph/hanford.allmydata.com-tahoe_speedstats_\
delay.html


But probably you'll get a better idea by experimenting with it:

http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2%3Adjrdkfawoqihigoett4g6auz6a%3\
Ajx5mplfpwexnoqff7y5e4zjus4lidm76dcuarpct7cckorh2dpgq/

(Warning: that grid is populated by "whoever reads
http://allmydata.org and connects", so I can't vouch for its
performance.)


Regards,

Zooko