[tahoe-dev] Authority to DoS via WAPI

[Brian Warner]

>>
>>
>> 3.  Maybe for the test we could use du() from fileutil (http://
>> allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py ,
>> also known as http://allmydata.org/trac/pyutil/browser/pyutil/pyutil/
>> fileutil.py ) to assert that the filesystem usage on the server isn't
>> greater after the client attempted to upload something.
>
> I'll look into this.
>

Alternatively, each storage server keeps track of how many share  
uploads have occurred (search storage.py for 'stats' and 'allocate').  
If du doesn't seem appropriate, the test code could walk the servers  
and assert that the counters are unchanged.

I'm not sure what the name of the control knob should be. "allow  
ambient unlinked upload"?

cheers,
  -Brian