[volunteergrid2-l] questions involving disk usage and drop_upload

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

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.)

Just to be clear: I wasn't complaining. :) The only reason I asked was
that it's not the behavior I'm used to from other cloud storage
services (e.g. Ubuntu One). It may actually be preferable not to
autodelete files that have been removed from the drop_upload
directory. In the case that I accidentally rm -rf /drop_upload_dir/*,
I wouldn't want that to wipe out my online backups when tahoe gets
inotify'd. If this is to be a feature, perhaps it should default to
off?

>> 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.

I appreciate the clarification!


Thanks,
Eric