Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of ServerSelection


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Timestamp:
2009-12-08T19:00:18Z (15 years ago)
Author:
zooko
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  • ServerSelection

    v6 v7  
    33Different users of Tahoe-LAFS have different desires for "Which servers should I upload which shares to?".
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    5  * allmydata.com wants to upload to a random selection, evenly distributed among servers which are not full; This is, unsurprisingly, what Tahoe v1.4 currently does.
     5 * allmydata.com wants to upload to a random selection, evenly distributed among servers which are not full; This is, unsurprisingly, what Tahoe v1.5 currently does.
    66 * Brian has mentioned that an allmydata.com-style deployment might prefer to have the servers with more remaining capacity receiving more shares, thus "filling up faster" than the servers with less remaining capacity.
    77 * Kevin Reid wants, at least for one of his use cases, to specify several servers each of which is guaranteed to get at least K shares of each file, in addition to potentially other servers also getting shares.