[tahoe-dev] symlink to storage on a different drive and available space reporting

[Jody Harris]

Since I'm not going to ask my users to change the code, I'm going to go with
linking to storage rather than shares.

Thanks!

Jody
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:24 AM, David Triendl <david at triendl.name> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:34:00AM -0700, Jody Harris wrote:
> > So, we have several users who are storing the Tahoe shares on a drive
> other
> > than where /home is located.
> I have a similar strategy, placing the node data in /var/lib/tahoe and the
> shares on a drive mounted at /srv/gridname, and I don't have any problem:
>
> david at mimir:/var/lib/tahoe/testgrid$ ls -l storage
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 16 18:18 storage -> /srv/tahoe/testgrid/
> david at mimir:/var/lib/tahoe/testgrid$ df -h . storage
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt
>                       14G  2.0G   12G  16% /
> /dev/mapper/mimir-testgrid
>                      2.0G  699M  1.4G  35% /srv/tahoe/testgrid
> david at mimir:/var/lib/tahoe/testgrid$ wget -O - -q
> http://mimir:3567/storage | grep -A 1 "free (r"
>    <tr><td>Disk space free (root):</td>
>        <td>1.40 GB</td>
>
> As you can see, the only difference is, that I link storage/ to a different
> location, while you link storage/shares. A look at the code
> (src/allmydata/storage/server.py) confirms it: There are two directories,
> one
> called the "storedir" (storage/), which the statvfs-call is called for, and
> the
> "sharedir" (storage/shares) which holds the actual shares.
>
> As you can see, the fix is easy: (src/allmydata/storage/server.py, around
> line
> 151) replace "disk_avail = self.stat_disk(self.storedir)" with "disk_avail
> =
> self.stat_disk(self.sharedir)", or change the symlink to link storage/
> instead
> of storage/shares/.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> >
> > Our strategy at this point is to simply delete the .tahoe/storage/shares
> > directory and create a symlink to the desired storage location.
> >
> > This results in the available space reported as something completely
> > unrelated to reality.
> >
> > Obviously, this is the wrong strategy. What does the tahoe-dev team
> > recommend?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jody
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> Hippo)
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