[tahoe-dev] Is it useful to truncate mutable files?

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Shawn Willden wrote:

> One more question:  I know the SDMF design is intended for smallish  
> files, but is there any reason not to use it for large files?  I  
> understand that for most uses immutable files are favored due to  
> their lower initial creation overhead, but for large files the  
> ability to truncate them later to save backend space may justify  
> the up-front overhead.

See some notes at ticket #694.  Also, fix it!  Fixing #694 is  
probably the easiest way to get your name into the Tahoe CREDITS file  
at the moment.  :-)

Regards,

Zooko

tickets mentioned in this mail:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/694 # remove hard limit on  
mutable file size