I sent this to <a href="mailto:tahoe-dev@allmydata.org">tahoe-dev@allmydata.org</a> the first time. Oops.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Shawn Willden</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shawn@willden.org">shawn@willden.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:40 AM<br>Subject: Seeing some odd behavior<br>To: tahoe-dev <<a href="mailto:tahoe-dev@allmydata.org">tahoe-dev@allmydata.org</a>><br><br><br>I've been using "tahoe backup" to back up some of my data, but I've now gotten through the low-volume, high-value stuff and am into the high-volume moderate-value stuff so I decided to switch to using GridBackup (which I'm also getting back to work on).<div>
<br></div><div>My theory has been that I could switch back and forth more or less with impunity, since while the two tools use very different approaches for storing metadata, both store the data files as immutable, and immutable PUTs are idempotent in Tahoe. As GridBackup tries to re-upload files which are already in the grid, though, I'm seeing some odd behavior.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Specifically, files that have less than N shares in the grid are pushing new shares -- but they're pushing too many. My settings are 7/12/14 and many files that already had 13 shares in the grid are pushing many new shares, as many as 8 or 9. Here's an example that pushed 5:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><h2 style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Upload Results</h2><ul><li style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Shares Pushed: 5</li><li style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
Shares Already Present: 13</li><li style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Sharemap:<ul><li>8 -> placed on [g4xvpwqa]</li><li>9 -> placed on [kqyu52yz]</li><li>10 -> placed on [kqlkvgiu]</li><li>11 -> placed on [qivwuhf6]</li>
<li>12 -> placed on [gbytbnxw]</li></ul></li><li style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Servermap:<ul><li>[gbytbnxw] got share: #12</li><li>[g4xvpwqa] got share: #8</li><li>[kqlkvgiu] got share: #10</li><li>[kqyu52yz] got share: #9</li>
<li>[qivwuhf6] got share: #11</li></ul></li><li style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Timings:</li><ul><li style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">File Size: 2158301 bytes</li><li style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
Total: 8.01s (269.5kBps)</li><ul style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><li>Storage Index: 16ms (132.15MBps)</li><li>[Contacting Helper]:</li><ul><li>[Helper Already-In-Grid Check]:</li></ul><li>[Upload Ciphertext To Helper]: ()</li>
<li>Peer Selection: 4.73s</li><li>Encode And Push: 3.26s (845.7kBps)</li><ul><li>Cumulative Encoding: 315ms (6.85MBps)</li><li>Cumulative Pushing: 2.24s (964.8kBps)</li><li>Send Hashes And Close: 616ms</li></ul><li>[Helper Total]:</li>
</ul></ul></ul><font face="Times" size="3"><br></font></div></div><div><font face="Times" size="3">Can anyone explain why this would be?</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="3"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="Times" size="3">Thanks,</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font face="Times" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="3">-- </font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="3">Shawn.</font></div>
</font></span></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Shawn<br>