Roadmap
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Byzantine fault tolerance
Allow for the creation of untrustworthy networks (in which data is stored on storage resources that users may not trust) while ensuring reliability and security.
Heterogeneous storage contributions
Balance the data while taking into account that some storage resources have more capacity than others.
Locking
Allow applications to lock file system objects to prevent other user/applications to use them.
Backblaze B2 storage resource
Allow Backblaze B2 service to be used as a block storage resource.
Windows SMB/NFS integrations
Provide an NFS/SMB integration server to easily integrate in existing production environments.
Storage reliability level
Allow the administrator to define the reliability of storage resources/providers. For instance, S3 already replicates data internally while a standalone server does not.
Erasure coding
Provide erasure coding as an alternative to bare replication to halve the storage capacity required to ensure data durability.
Dropbox storage resource
Allow Dropbox to be used as a block storage resource.
Google Drive storage resource
Allow Google Drive to be used as a block storage resource.
Versioning
Allow users to explore and roll-back to a previous version of a file.
JUL
2016
Optimizations
Integrate many low-level networking, overlay network, distributed hash table and file system optimizations for various scenarios.
JUN
2016
Windows native file system integration
Provide a native interface for Windows operating systems to mount Infinit file systems.
MAY
2016
On-Premise Hub
Integrate many low-level networking, overlay network, distributed hash table and file system optimizations for various scenarios.
LDAP
Integrate with LDAP to retrieve the users, groups and permissions in an existing organization.
APR
2016
Scale out/in
Allow to add/remove storage servers, manually or following a fault: the system adapts by possibly creating new replicas in order to maintain the redundancy policy e.g replication factor.
Scale up/down
Allow to attach additional/detach storage resources and/or increase/decrease the storage capacity contributions from a device to an existing network, without incurring any interruption of service.
MAR
2016
Dynamic rebalancing
Dynamically rebalancing some blocks to another nodes following the fault of a storage node in order to maintain the replication factor defined by the network administrator.
FEB
2016
Google Cloud Storage storage resource
Allow Google Cloud Storage to be used as a block storage resource.
AWS S3 storage resource
Allow AWS S3 to be used as a block storage resource.
JAN
2016
Storage contribution limit
Allow one to specify the storage capacity to allocate when creating a storage.
Group-based access control
Allow users to organize themselves into groups and control access to files/directories to those groups.
Fine-grained passports
Allow the administrator to issue passport for a user to act either as a client and/or server (preventing a user from attaching additional storage resources) but also to control whether a user can put and/or get blocks in the network.
Storage load network-wide balancing
Support distributing the blocks across several storage nodes that contribute storage capacity through one or more storage resources.
DEC
2015
NAT traversal
Improve the probability of connection by relying on NAT traversal if directly connection and uPnP failed.
UPnP
Offer nodes to configure, if available, their router to open a port to connect to other nodes in peer-to-peer.
Fault tolerance
Detect failures (crash, disconnection etc.) and rely on the other replicas for the service to operate as usual without the users noticing something went wrong.
Multi-device user
Provide users ways to transfer their user identities to another device.
NOV
2015
Paxos consensus
Introduce Paxos to reach consensus among the storage nodes responsible for the replicas of a specific piece of data.
Replication
Define the replication factor for every block of every file system object (file, directory etc.) to be stored multiple times to ensure the durability and availability of the data.
Caching
Introduce a caching mechanism to speed up operations.
Asynchronous operations
Support operations being performed asynchronously meaning that system calls return once the operation is committed in the journal with the data modifications being later published throughout the storage network.
OCT
2015
uTP
Support for high-throughput data transmission through UDP-based network protocols.
Import SSH RSA key
Allow users to import their existing SSH RSA key to work with Infinit.
Cloud storage services management
Offer an easy way to manage credentials to cloud storage services, possibly by relying on the Infinit Hub.
Hub
Introduce the Hub to ease the process of connecting cloud storage services, share networks/volumes/etc. with friends etc.
Passport
Allow the network administrator to authorize other users to connect and possibly contribute additional storage capacity.
Access control list
Allow users to control the permissions on their file system objects: files, directories etc.
SEPT
2015
Kelips overlay network
Introduce the Kelips gossip-based overlay network.
OS X native file system integration
Support for a native integration through the FUSE kernel module on OS X.
AUG
2015
Command-line tools
Provide basic command-line tools to create users, storages, networks and volumes.
Linux native file system integration
Support for a native integration through the FUSE Linux kernel module.
Multiple storage resources per server
Allow nodes to attach several storage nodes and distribute blocks among those storages.
Block encryption
Encrypt the data blocks with a key unique to the block.
File system logic
Represent files into a collection of mutable and immutable blocks.
Local storage resource
Allow a local file system to act as a storage resource by storing blocks of encrypted data as local