[volunteergrid2-l] questions involving disk usage and drop_upload

[Jody Harris]

David-Sarah,

I'm really glad you joined this list. It's great to have the top-level
developers answering technical questions like these.

jody
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On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:05 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood
<david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:
> 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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