[tahoe-dev] Sighting reports [correction]

[Kyle Markley]

>> When a storage server accepts responsibility for a share during peer
>> selection, it makes a placeholder file of the same size as it was asked
>> to store. 
> 
> This is wrong -- the storage server writes a small placeholder file, not
> a placeholder file of the same size as the share file. The storage
> server still takes the amount of space it expects to use for future
> immutable uploads into account, though, just not in quite the way my
> message said it did.

I should have included more information in my report.  None of the storage
servers are anywhere close to full -- they all have several GiB remaining,
and the file being uploaded is only about 2 MiB.  The shares definitely
should not have been rejected due to insufficient space.


Total disk space:  	116.29 GB  	(116289167360)  	
Disk space used: 	- 75.19 GB 	(75194568704) 	
	====== 		
Disk space free (root): 	41.09 GB 	(41094598656) 	[see 1]
Disk space free (non-root): 	41.09 GB 	(41094598656) 	[see 2]
Reserved space: 	- 32.21 GB 	(32212254720) 	
	====== 		
Space Available to Tahoe: 	8.88 GB 	(8882343936) 	


otal disk space:  	144.27 GB  	(144270249984)  	
Disk space used: 	- 72.31 GB 	(72305795072) 	
	====== 		
Disk space free (root): 	71.96 GB 	(71964454912) 	[see 1]
Disk space free (non-root): 	71.96 GB 	(71964454912) 	[see 2]
Reserved space: 	- 10.74 GB 	(10737418240) 	
	====== 		
Space Available to Tahoe: 	61.23 GB 	(61227036672) 	


Total disk space:  	270.53 GB  	(270531049472)  	
Disk space used: 	- 20.88 GB 	(20880502784) 	
	====== 		
Disk space free (root): 	249.65 GB 	(249650546688) 	[see 1]
Disk space free (non-root): 	236.12 GB 	(236123996160) 	[see 2]
Reserved space: 	- 1.05 MB 	(1048576) 	
	====== 		
Space Available to Tahoe: 	236.12 GB 	(236122947584) 


Total disk space:  	160.04 GB  	(160041852928)  	
Disk space used: 	- 60.09 GB 	(60092473344) 	
	====== 		
Disk space free (root): 	99.95 GB 	(99949379584) 	[see 1]
Disk space free (non-root): 	99.95 GB 	(99949379584) 	[see 2]
Reserved space: 	- 10.74 GB 	(10737418240) 	
	====== 		
Space Available to Tahoe: 	89.21 GB 	(89211961344) 	


-- 
Kyle Markley