[tahoe-dev] Question about one-node network

[Michael Coppola]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your advice.  I think I'll just download all my files off the
existing node and start the network from scratch again - this time with
more nodes and a proper configuration.

Is there a command that can be used to grab all the files from a
Tahoe-LAFS network? (or least a given directory?)  I have.. quite a few
files.  I will use the FTP interface in the mean time, but it seems like
the FTPd can be a bit flaky at times.  Is there a more "proper" way to
do this?

Thanks,
MC

On 01/04/2011 08:19 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Michael Coppola <coppola.mi at husky.neu.edu> writes:
>
>> I currently have a Tahoe-LAFS network that only has one server.  This
>> one server is both a storage node and the introducer.  The
>> shares.needed, shares.total, and shares.happy values are all set to 1. 
>> I plan to add more storage nodes to this network in the near future, but
>> I was wondering what would happen to the files I've originally
>> uploaded.  Once I add the additional nodes and raise the N, K, and H
>> values, will I still be able to access these original files (since the
>> files will not have been distributed across the new value of H nodes
>> when they were originally uploaded)?  If not, is there a way to tell
>> Tahoe-LAFS to replicate the pieces to H nodes after the fact?  Thanks.
> You can still get at the files.  Encoding is per file (directory), set at
> creation time.  I have files on pubgrid at 3/10 and at 2/7 (reduced to
> lack of working servers).
>
> So you'll have directories at 1/1 and immutable files at 1/1.  After you
> add 2 more servers (say) and change clients to to 1/3, new files and
> directories will get replicated.  But your old directories won't
>
> Then, if your original server fails, you will lose directories and thus
> have a hard time unless you've printed out 'tahoe manifest' even for
> files on more servers.
>
> Note that H is just a parameter of what's ok to do now, and doesn't
> affect the encoding.
>
> To change from 1/1 to 1/5 I think you have to copy and abandon the
> original items.
>
> I recommend never using 1/1.  Use 1/5 and then you can repair to spread
> to more servers (I have not tested this!).