From: david-sarah Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:43:11 +0000 (-0700) Subject: FTP-and-SFTP.txt: add Known Issues section. X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/%5B/frontends//%22news.html/%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29a9059c94eef955bfec4ec5dd01f28a3428c051;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git FTP-and-SFTP.txt: add Known Issues section. --- diff --git a/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.txt b/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.txt index b00d399c..78f6bfa5 100644 --- a/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.txt +++ b/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.txt @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ start the FTP server unless it detects the necessary support code in Twisted. This patch is not needed for SFTP. -== Immutable and mutable files == +== Immutable and Mutable Files == All files created via SFTP (and FTP) are immutable files. However, files can only be created in writeable directories, which allows the directory @@ -193,5 +193,22 @@ read-only. If SFTP is used to write to an existing mutable file, it will publish a new version when the file handle is closed. + +== Known Issues == + Mutable files are not supported by the FTP frontend (ticket #680). Currently, a directory containing mutable files cannot even be listed over FTP. + +The FTP frontend sometimes fails to report errors, for example if an upload +fails because it does meet the "servers of happiness" threshold (ticket #1081). +Upload errors also may not be reported when writing files using SFTP via sshfs +(ticket #1059). + +Non-ASCII filenames are not supported by FTP (ticket #682). They can be used +with SFTP only if the client encodes filenames as UTF-8 (ticket #1089). + +The gateway node may incur a memory leak when accessing many files via SFTP +(ticket #1045). + +For other known issues in SFTP, see +.