#213 closed enhancement

good handling of small numbers of servers, or strange choice of servers — at Initial Version

Reported by: zooko Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: undecided
Component: code-peerselection Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: usability availability preservation repair Cc: ussjoin@…
Launchpad Bug:

Description

Suppose you try to upload something when you are on an airplane and you are completely disconnected from all of your servers other than the one that you yourself are running.

option a. fail

option b. silently upload all M shares to yourself

option 1. be transparent about this -- have output showing the user what is happening and a knob the user can use to control to what degree you can rely on yourself alone to store things

option alpha. have a "rebalancing" operation in which data which is stored on a "skewed" set of servers (such as too few servers, or on servers which are less well places on the unit circle) gets moved to a more appropriate set

option alpha-uno. be transparent about that, too

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