Open Source Documentation

This page provides online documentation for the open source Dispersed Storage Network releases. This software can be downloaded from Sourceforge at:

Release 1.2 Documentation

Documentation Overview

Documentation for this release is divided into four separate documents. Readers of these documents are targeted will generally fall into one of the following roles:

System Administrators

The person responsible for installing and configuring each component of the Dispersed Storage Network (e.g., the registry store, access servers, and slice servers).

Storage Network Administrators

The person responsible for configuring and maintaining a new or existing Dispersed Storage Network.

End User

The user of a machine reading or writing data on the Dispersed Storage Network.

Document Purpose
Installation Guide Instructions for installing major system components of the Dispersed Storage Network.
Administration Guide Instructions for using the various tools included in the Administration Console.
User Guide Brief guide for various client software that can be used to read and write data on a Dispersed Storage Network.