[volunteergrid2-l] Revisiting space contribution caps

[Brad Rupp]

On 2/3/2011 9:45 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
> Allowing users to use whatever they provide could still get us in
> trouble if we had a user join who wanted to deploy a node with, say 10
> TB, and then consume 10 TB in the grid.  Since the rest of us probably
> aren't ready (or interested) in upgrading to that level, allowing that
> person to join the grid would create a situation where the grid cannot
> fulfill that person's expectations and attempting to would make the grid
> useless for the rest of us.
>
> Thus, we want a policy that politely makes clear to that person that
> this grid is not the grid he's looking for.

I agree.  Likewise, if someone only wants to contribute 10GB 
(ridiculous, I know), then I think we should tell them the same thing.

The fact that we have the potential to store 500 GB is one of the things 
that attracted me to this project.  I'm not anywhere close to needing 
this yet, but the way storage is growing...