Alternatives

Some similarities and differences between ABFS and other file systems or distribution systems.

	ABFS	bittorrent	NFS	tor	FreeNet
peers	trusted	anonymous	trusted	trusted	anonymous
authentication	ip/user	anonymous	ip	ip/user	anonymous
links	static	on demand	static	static	on demand
routing	onion	direct	direct	onion	onion
access	mount file system	client software	mount file system	N/A	client software
publish file	copy to file system	generate and publish torrent	copy to file system	N/A	insert file
find file	browse file system	search for torrent	browse file system	N/A	?
retrieve file	open()+read() syscalls	client download	open()+read() syscalls	N/A	client download
content of local cache	encrypted "garbage"	files	N/A	N/A	encrypted "garbage"
whole file local	no	yes	N/A	N/A	no
redundant transfer	yes	yes	no	no	?
encrypted transfer	yes	no	no	yes	yes
processes	daemon	client	kernel	kernel	client
fairness	up/down ratio	up/down ratio	none	none	none
read control	none	need access to torrent	unix style	N/A	none
write control	none	write not possible	unix style	N/A	all versions kept
delete file	least recently used	unpublish torrent	manual clean up	N/A	least recently used
storage location	distributed	distributed	central	N/A	distributed