[volunteergrid2-l] an old bug explained and fixed

[Jody Harris]

That is great to hear! Kudos to the GSoC student!

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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear vg2 folks (if any of you are still here!):
>
> You several times reported a bug during the vg2 experiment, and I
> never understood it, and we just now figured it out.
>
> #2016: Not enough available servers are found
>
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2016
>
> As Daira mentions on that ticket, this probably explains why the vg2
> was unreliable when h was close to N. This bug would cause upload to
> fail even when there were lots of available servers.
>
> Also, I'm happy to report that our Google Summer of Code student has
> already fixed this bug, even before we realized that it was the same
> bug as the one that afflicted vg2!
>
> http://markjberger.blogspot.com/
>
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-July/008486.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
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