[tahoe-dev] Test Grid is full

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

Just so y'all know, the Test Grid (which is linked to from the front
page of http://tahoe-lafs.org ) is full. I just tried to upload a 1.8
MB PDF to it, and got this error message:

shares could be placed on only 4 server(s) such that any 3 of them
have enough shares to recover the file, but we were asked to place
shares on at least 5 such servers. (placed all 10 shares, want to
place shares on at least 5 servers such that any 3 of them have enough
shares to recover the file, sent 14 queries to 10 peers, 8 queries
placed some shares, 6 placed none (of which 5 placed none due to the
server being full and 1 placed none due to an error

By the way, this is an example of the "servers of happiness" feature
doing its job. Formerly the upload would have silently succeeded while
leaving my PDF spread across only four server, but since my
servers-of-happiness setting is 5 then this was a loud error which
alerted me to the fact that my PDF can not have the level of
robustness that I wanted.

I wouldn't expect the Test Grid to become un-full any time soon. The
storage servers have garbage collection turned off by default, so only
if some of the operators of test grid servers deliberately turn
expiration on, as described in
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/garbage-collection.rst
. (And then we would have to wait for at least 31 days to pass.)

You can see information about the pubgrid here:

http://pubgrid.tahoe-lafs.org/

The directory on the pubgrid, which is world-writeable and is linked
from the front page of http://tahoe-lafs.org, is this one:

http://pubgrid.tahoe-lafs.org/uri/URI%3ADIR2%3Actmtx2awdo4xt77x5xxaz6nyxm%3An5t546ddvd6xlv4v6se6sjympbdbvo7orwizuzl42urm73sxazqa/

Regards,

Zooko