[tahoe-dev] new stable grid volunteers

[Luke Scharf]

Benjamin Jansen wrote:
>> I know that this may not apply to your situation, but it seems like
>> running the Tahoe node in a VM of some sort is a good idea.  That  
>> would
>> put the Tahoe server into it's own security-container -- so, in the
>> unlikely event that some catastrophic security bug were found in the
>> node-daemon, the rest of your stuff would be protected.
>>     
>
> For this use case (worried about storage size more than security  
> flaws), you could put the node's storage dir on its own partition.  
> Storage is limited to whatever amount you wish, and any bug in tahoe's  
> storage limiting code cannot override that limit.
>   

Or even a loopback mount:

   1.

      dd of=$PWD/taho_partition.img bs=$[ 1024 ** 2 ] count=0 seek=$[ 32 * 1024]

   2.

      mkfs.ext3 $PWD/taho_partition.img

   3.

      mount -o loop $PWD/taho_partition.img /export/tahoe

   4.

      Make appropriate changes to /etc/fstab so that it will be mounted automatically
      during the next boot -- something like:
      /path/tahoe_partition.img /export/tahoe ext3 loop 0 0
          


-Luke