[tahoe-dev] Grid Design Feedback

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 27/06/11 17:08, Shawn Willden wrote:
> However, if you just increase N and K you'll have a problem that the dircaps
> -- the most important files, from a reliability perspective -- will still
> have their original values.  As you update the directories, I believe that
> the shares will shift around the nodes, but they won't get any more
> shares... unless you use immutable directories which are obviously created
> with each update. Can that be done via the sftp interface?

No, the SFTP interface can't create immutable directories. It's unlikely that
it will be able to do so in future, since the SFTP protocol is similar to the
POSIX API in not having any single operations that create or copy whole
directory structures at once.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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