[tahoe-dev] How does file deletion work?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi

Shawn Willden <shawn-tahoe at willden.org>
writes:

> On Monday 13 July 2009 10:29:31 am Rufus Pollock wrote:

[...]

>> But how do I (or tahoe) know if someone is holding a read or
>> write-cap? (And when we say someone we can't mean anything I've passed
>> the read-cap to, we've got to mean something that's connected to the
>> grid like another node right?)
>
> Tahoe can't in general know about all read or write caps held outside of Tahoe 
> dirnodes.  If you're holding an unlinked read cap which you don't want to get 
> deleted, you have to periodically contact the servers holding the shares 
> to "renew the lease".  Without that, the servers will probably eventually 
> reclaim the space.

Does that mean that storage servers are able to list the capabilities
contained in a directory object?

Thanks,
Ludo'.