[volunteergrid2-l] Revisiting space contribution caps

[Shawn Willden]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> 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.


Yes, on the lower end we have a firm minimum of 500 GB.  We have allowed
that to slip to 250 GB in one case, but only temporarily, and only in the
interest of getting the critical mass of nodes up to where it needs to be so
we can start using the grid.

-- 
Shawn
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