Experimental OpenCloud integration with decentralized storage (VOLPAROSSA)

[erikleblansch]

Hi OpenCloud team!

I'm developing VOLPAROSSA Cloud, an experimental open-source integration exploring how OpenCloud's familiar file interface could work with encrypted, distributed peer storage.

We've been experimenting with the original OpenCloud Files web interface and an owner-local WebDAV/Graph adapter connected to the VOLPAROSSA core.

Our latest scoped trial successfully uploads and encrypts a file, distributes its fragments across storage peers, and recovers it through the Files interface after restarting the local service and taking the original source and one storage peer offline. Two subsequent downloads were verified against the original file.

The test results and current limitations are documented in the repository.

This is still an early integration, not a complete server-independent OpenCloud implementation. Account management, sharing, synchronization and cross-device recovery remain unfinished.

I'd be interested in your thoughts on the best long-term integration approach. Would implementing a CS3 storage provider be preferable to maintaining our current WebDAV/Graph-compatible adapter?

I'd like to keep the integration compatible with upstream OpenCloud wherever possible.

Thanks for your work on OpenCloud!