<div dir="ltr">The new public grid appears to be gaining traction quite well. I figure now that it has been in operation a little more than a month it would be good to give a quick overview of its status and any other observation that I have had.<div>
<br></div><div>I want to thank the storage nodes that have been reliably connected including the following:<div>claude<br></div><div>kapiteined<br></div><div>rebuilder_tx<br></div><div>PRabahy<br></div><div>wander<br></div>
<div>pubgrid-ecd10741<br></div><div><br></div><div style>The public writable test directory has been used by several people (including myself) for various experiments. So far I haven't noticed any abuse.</div></div><div style>
<div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">>tahoe stats public:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Counts and Total Sizes:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> count-immutable-files: 5</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> count-mutable-files: 14</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> count-literal-files: 5</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> count-files: 24</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> count-directories: 12</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> size-immutable-files: 2493001 (2.49 MB, 2.38 MiB)</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> size-literal-files: 58</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> size-directories: 13377 (13.38 kB, 13.06 kiB)</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> largest-directory: 5928 (5.93 kB, 5.79 kiB)</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">largest-immutable-file: 947954 (947.95 kB, 925.74 kiB)</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Size Histogram:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> 1-3 : 1 (3 B, 3 B)</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> ...</font></div><div>
<font face="courier new, monospace"> 11-31 : 4 (31 B, 31 B)</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> ...</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> 100001-316227 : 2 (316.23 kB, 308.82 kiB)</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> 316228-1000000 : 3 (1.00 MB, 976.56 kiB)</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style><font face="courier new, monospace">Currently the shares directory on the PRabahy node weighs in at about 650MB. The largest individual share is about 172MB (~25% of the total stored).</font></div>
<div style><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style><font face="courier new, monospace">I encourage everyone that is able to setup a storage node to help newcomers dive into Tahoe-LAFS as easily as possible. My goal is to have at least 10 storage nodes connected to the public grid at any time.</font></div>
<div style><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style><font face="courier new, monospace">Warning - The public grid is a service provided for experimentation and learning. Please do not store any important files on the public grid. The grid may go offline at anytime without prior notice.</font></div>
<div style><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style><font face="courier new, monospace">~PRab</font></div></div></div>