[volunteergrid2-l] tahoe-lafs 1.8.2 released

[Brad Rupp]

I am in Riverton, UT, which is in the south end of the Salt Lake valley.

Brad

On 1/31/2011 9:51 AM, Jody Harris wrote:
> I'm in Southeasten NM, just south of Roswell. My ISP is somewhat less
> than stellar. My wife says, "It only goes down when the wind blows and
> when the sun shines," which happens to be our normal year-round weather
> pattern. I'm pretty sure we manage a 95% uptime, though.
> ----
> - Think carefully.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Billy Earney <billy.earney at gmail.com
> <mailto:billy.earney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I’m located in Columbia, MO.
>
>     I figured it wouldn’t hurt to be proactive.. J   If people know that
>     there could be node issues, that would give people the information
>     to decide if they wanted to add data to the grid while there are
>     outages..  I believe the current version of tahoe-lafs doesn’t
>     automatically rebalance segments, so if one or two nodes are down
>     then data can’t be stored on those nodes..   But I believe a
>     “deep-check –repair”  could possibly fix this, if other nodes are
>     missing at another time and the number of available segments fall
>     below a given threshold.
>
>     FYI.   I’m already using the grid to store a few small files (less
>     than 1MB), just to see how things perform.  I’ve had to reset some
>     of the settings to upload a file, but as new nodes are added, I’ll
>     adjust those settings..   A deep-check has always come back healthy,
>     so that is good news.. J
>
>     *From:*volunteergrid2-l-bounces at tahoe-lafs.org
>     <mailto:volunteergrid2-l-bounces at tahoe-lafs.org>
>     [mailto:volunteergrid2-l-bounces at tahoe-lafs.org
>     <mailto:volunteergrid2-l-bounces at tahoe-lafs.org>] *On Behalf Of
>     *Shawn Willden
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2011 9:13 AM
>     *To:* a small group of people sharing storage resources with Tahoe-LAFS
>     *Subject:* Re: [volunteergrid2-l] tahoe-lafs 1.8.2 released
>
>     On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Billy Earney
>     <billy.earney at gmail.com <mailto:billy.earney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yesterday the tahoe-lafs group released 1.8.2, which allows for
>     compatibility with Twisted 10.2, and several bug fixes..   I'll probably
>     upgrade in a week or two.. :)
>
>     I'll probably upgrade later today, or perhaps tomorrow.  Our general
>     policy of delaying a bit doesn't matter right now, since we're still
>     building to the critical mass of nodes required to make the grid useful.
>
>         FYI..  in my area, they are calling for over 1 foot of snow in
>         the next 2
>         days, and a possibility of down power lines.
>
>     Good information!  I like the pro-active notification.  Let's try to
>     make that part of the culture here.  I don't think we need it for
>     very short-term outages like restarts, but if you know your node
>     will likely be down for hours or days, it'd be nice to let people
>     know.  I don't think there's anything we can necessarily do about
>     it, but I still think it's a good idea.
>
>     Out of curiosity, where is everyone located?  I'm in northern Utah.
>       South Weber, to be specific.  Don't feel obligated to provide your
>     location if you don't want, but if you don't care I thought it would
>     be interesting.
>
>     Actually, in case it's ever useful or you'd just like to chat, I'd
>     like everyone here to have my phone number.  It's 801-721-1631.
>
>
>     --
>     Shawn
>
>
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