[tahoe-dev] File size problem

[zooko]

Hello, Jan-Benedict Glaw!

The current recommendation is to use immutable files for large files.

There is currently a hard limit of 3.5 million bytes for mutable  
files.  Here is the ticket suggesting that we remove this hard limit,  
but commenting that it will still have some problems even if we do:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/359 # eliminate hard limit on  
size of SDMFs

Those problems include the memory-usage that you observed.

(A patch to eliminate the hard limit and, of course, to test the  
source code somehow, would be welcome.)


> And during create-client and create-introducer, an empty directory  
> is required. It would be nice to ignore "lost+found" while looking  
> up directory contents...

I don't understand.  What is "lost+found"?

Do you mean that you would rather those commands would create a new  
directory instead of requiring an empty one?  Oh, you mean that they  
should consider a directory containing only "lost+found" to be  
empty.  Hm.  I would probably accept a patch to do that, provided, of  
course, that doing so would not make our code-coverage statistics  
worse.  :-)

Regards,

Zooko