[tahoe-dev] Load balancing

[Marc Tooley]

On Saturday 29 August 2009, Brian Warner wrote:
> It's a bandwidth hit, but it
> gets you rebalancing, but you need more code to delete the old shares
> (or more likely cancel their leases and wait for expiration).

The ability to actually delete shares, for those of us who are afraid to 
run the garbage collector because we're afraid to forget to renew 
leases, would be neat in support of features like this sort of 
re-balancing. (And perhaps for distant-future human-intervention space 
reclamation too.)

Sometimes we (people like me) do have a bunch of machines all operating 
that are all 100% under our own control, but I understand that tahoe 
was built more for mass-participation and not necessarily people who 
are using private grids as a fault-resistant, ultra-reliable backup 
mechanism.