[tahoe-dev] Mixing different shares.needed/happy/total settings

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 11/05/11 20:07, Brian Warner wrote:
> If the unix equivalent would be:
> 
>  cd new
>  ln -s ~/old ./old
> 
> then the Tahoe operation is to use 'tahoe list-aliases' to find the
> dircap for the old aliase, then use 'tahoe webopen new:' to open a
> web-browser to the new directory, then use that in-browser WUI to paste
> the dircap into the "Add a link to a file or directory which is already
> in Tahoe-LAFS" form. (there's no CLI command for this, unfortunately).

Yes there is:

  tahoe ln old: new:old

[...]
> I think I lost you there. But two tidbits that might be relevant. The
> first is that you can't force the system to give you a particular
> filecap or dircap (capability string) for an upload or mkdir operation:
> it's effectively random.

Nitpick: except for LIT files/directories (very small files or immutable
directories where the content is stored in the cap).

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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