The underlying issue is recorded in #211: one corrupt share in a query
response will cause us to ignore the remaining shares in that response, even
if they are good. In our tests (with N=10 but only 5 peers), this can leave
us with too few shares to recover the file.
The temporary workaround is to use 10 peers, to make sure we never get
multiple shares per response. The real fix will be to fix the control flow.
This fixes#209.
* use new decentralized directories everywhere instead of old centralized directories
* provide UI to them through the web server
* provide UI to them through the CLI
* update unit tests to simulate decentralized mutable directories in order to test other components that rely on them
* remove the notion of a "vdrive server" and a client thereof
* remove the notion of a "public vdrive", which was a directory that was centrally published/subscribed automatically by the tahoe node (you can accomplish this manually by making a directory and posting the URL to it on your web site, for example)
* add a notion of "wait_for_numpeers" when you need to publish data to peers, which is how many peers should be attached before you start. The default is 1.
* add __repr__ for filesystem nodes (note: these reprs contain a few bits of the secret key!)
* fix a few bugs where we used to equate "mutable" with "not read-only". Nowadays all directories are mutable, but some might be read-only (to you).
* fix a few bugs where code wasn't aware of the new general-purpose metadata dict the comes with each filesystem edge
* sundry fixes to unit tests to adjust to the new directories, e.g. don't assume that every share on disk belongs to a chk file.
It isn't currently used, and I don't remember what part of its behavior was so much better than tahoe_put.py, and Brian has subsequently improved tahoe_put.py.
I'm not 100% sure that this is correct, but it looks reasonable, it passes unit
tests (although note that unit tests are currently not covering the new mutable
files very well), and it makes the "view JSON" link on a directory work instead
of raising an assertion error.
Brian Warner
the real nejucomo