[volunteergrid2-l] I'm live. :)

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 05/04/12 13:25, Shawn Willden wrote:
> I'd really like to use:
> 
> shares.total = 17
> shares.happy = 17
> shares.needed = 10
> 
> That would provide a consistent expansion factor of 1.7 with a 99.9999% probability of
> file recoverability.  Unfortunately, there's some hard-to-reproduce bug that causes
> shares.total=shares.happy configs to occasionally fail to upload.

It's not clear to me that this is a bug, at least not in the uploader. It is the intended
behaviour that if less than shares.happy nodes accept a share, then the upload will fail.
So, to verify a bug in the uploader, we'd need to see from the logs that all servers
accepted shares. If not, then there may be a bug in the server(s) that failed to accept a
share, or there may have been a network problem.

Even if there were no bugs and no network problems in the normal case, setting
shares.happy = shares.total still puts you in a situation where a single failure
will compromise upload availability.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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