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===How come there are no mountable filesystem frontends?===
There are; they just aren't built-in. Tahoe's high latency makes it rather unwieldy for use as part of a conventional filesystem. Append operations in particular are extremely inefficient. It is recommended that you use the web and CLI interfaces to manage files stored in tahoe.
===What are the downsides?===
Currently there's a reliance on a central introducer. This has several disadvantages:
* If the introducer goes away, every node in the system must be reconfigured to choose a new introducer furl string.
* Tahoe's erasure coding maintains availability in the event of a loss of nodes, but not malicious nodes. It's trivial to DoS a grid either by a Sybil attack or just using up all available storage if you know the introducer furl string. A [https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/467 patch] is in the works to allow clients to choose their own storage nodes that should mitigate this.
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