[volunteergrid2-l] questions involving disk usage and drop_upload

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

I'll just answer the questions about drop-upload, since I implemented
that feature.

On 06/04/12 03:20, erpo41 at gmail.com wrote:
> 2. I think the drop_upload feature is what I want. Files I put in the
> local directory seem to be uploaded to the grid. However, when I
> delete the files out of my local directory, the files are not
> automatically deleted from the grid. Is this the expected behavior?

Yes, it is. I've just filed
<https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1710> to allow the
automatic deletion behaviour. (This isn't likely to be a priority
to support in the next couple of releases, though, unless someone
volunteers to implement it.)

> 4. Do I need to do anything to keep the leases on my backups from
> expiring, or does the client software handle that for me in the case
> of a drop_upload directory?

A drop-upload directory is not treated any differently from other Tahoe
directories, i.e. if garbage collection is enabled, you must add leases
to the files in order for them to be retained.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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