[Opensim-dev] oddities with asset storage

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:32:00AM -0500, Frisby, Adam wrote:
> It's for use in a trusted environment only. 

How much can you trust 10000 random strangers
who can run OpenSim servers in a hypergrid and do?

> You can't have an asset cluster in an untrusted environment 
> without replicating every asset across every host -- otherwise 

I recommend you look at what Tahoe does.

> someone could setup, run for a while, then deliberately corrupt 

I really recommend you look at what Tahoe does.

> the hard disk. Given enough machines doing this, you could permanently wipe assets.

It is not realistic to assume that most hosts are malicious.

Notice that this is the time where bad design decisions could
wind up cemented for good.