From: Brian Warner Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 18:40:11 +0000 (-0700) Subject: accounting-overview.txt: small edits X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/%5B/frontends/nxhtml.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b94012ed05b3c11b4c6c649eb13306937800523b;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git accounting-overview.txt: small edits --- diff --git a/docs/proposed/accounting-overview.txt b/docs/proposed/accounting-overview.txt index bcd3a733..553c13eb 100644 --- a/docs/proposed/accounting-overview.txt +++ b/docs/proposed/accounting-overview.txt @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ model, which dictates how specific files and directories may or may not be manipulated, Accounting is concerned with resource consumption: how much disk space a given person/account/entity can use. -The 1.3.0 and earlier releases have a nearly-unbounded resource usage model. -Anybody who can talk to the Introducer gets to talk to all the Storage -Servers, and anyone who can talk to a Storage Server gets to use as much disk -space as they want (up to the reserved_space= limit imposed by the server, -which affects all users equally). Not only is the per-user space usage -unlimited, it is also unmeasured: the owner of the Storage Server has no way -to find out how much space Alice or Bob is using. +Tahoe releases up to and including 1.4.1 have a nearly-unbounded resource +usage model. Anybody who can talk to the Introducer gets to talk to all the +Storage Servers, and anyone who can talk to a Storage Server gets to use as +much disk space as they want (up to the reserved_space= limit imposed by the +server, which affects all users equally). Not only is the per-user space +usage unlimited, it is also unmeasured: the owner of the Storage Server has +no way to find out how much space Alice or Bob is using. The goals of the Accounting system are thus: @@ -39,11 +39,17 @@ indicates the account or user which wants to keep the share alive. A given account's "usage" (their per-server aggregate usage) is simply the sum of the sizes of all shares on which they hold a lease. The storage server may limit the user to a fixed "quota" (an upper bound on their usage). To keep a file -alive, the user must be willing to use up some of their quota. A popular file -might have leases from multiple users, in which case one user might take a -chance and decline to add their own lease, saving some of their quota and -hoping that the other leases continue to keep the file alive despite their -personal unwillingness to contribute to the effort. +alive, the user must be willing to use up some of their quota. + +Note that a popular file might have leases from multiple users, in which case +one user might take a chance and decline to add their own lease, saving some +of their quota and hoping that the other leases continue to keep the file +alive despite their personal unwillingness to contribute to the effort. One +could imagine a "pro-rated quotas" scheme, in which a 10MB file with 5 +leaseholders would deduct 2MB from each leaseholder's quota. We have decided +to not implement pro-rated quotas, because such a scheme would make usage +values hard to predict: a given account might suddenly go over quota solely +because of a third party's actions. == Authority Flow == @@ -53,13 +59,13 @@ over their space, and delegate portions of it to others: either directly to clients who want to upload files, or to intermediaries who can then delegate attenuated authority onwards. The operators have various reasons for wanting to share their space: monetary consideration, expectations of in-kind -exchange, or simple generosity. But the first and final authority rests with -them. +exchange, or simple generosity. But the final authority always rests with the +operator. -The server operator grants restricted authority over their space by -configuring their server to accept requests that demonstrate knowledge of -certain secrets. They then share those secrets with the client who intends to -use this space, or an intermediary who will generate still more secrets and +The server operator grants limited authority over their space by configuring +their server to accept requests that demonstrate knowledge of certain +secrets. They then share those secrets with the client who intends to use +this space, or with an intermediary who will generate still more secrets and share those with the client. Eventually, an upload or create-directory operation will be performed that needs this authority. Part of the operation will involve proving knowledge of the secret to the storage server, and the @@ -631,9 +637,9 @@ pieces with commas. The string is terminated by the first non-[0-9,] character encountered, which will either be the key-identifier letter of the next field, or the dictionary-terminating character at the end. -Any single decimal number (such as the "before" timestamp field, or the -"server-size" field) is serialized as a variable-length sequence of ASCII -deciman digits, terminated by any non-digit. +Any single integral decimal number (such as the "before" timestamp field, or +the "server-size" field) is serialized as a variable-length sequence of ASCII +decimal digits, terminated by any non-digit. The restrictions dictionary is serialized as a concatenated series of key-identifier-letter / value string pairs, ending with the marker "E.". The @@ -641,7 +647,7 @@ URL-safe form uses a single printable letter to indicate the which key is being serialized. Each type of value string is serialized differently: "A": accountid: variable-length sequence of comma-joned numbers - "I": storage index: fixed-length 22-character base62-encoded storage index + "I": storage index: fixed-length 26-character *base32*-encoded storage index "P": server id (peer id): fixed-length 32-character *base32* encoded serverid (matching the printable Tub.tubID string that Foolscap provides) "U": UEB hash: fixed-length 43-character base62 encoded UEB hash @@ -667,8 +673,7 @@ delegate private key. Given the single-certificate serialization scheme described above, the full authority is serialized as follows: * version prefix: depends upon the application, but for storage-authority - chains this will be "sa0-", for storage-authority version - 0. + chains this will be "sa0-", for Storage-Authority Version 0. * serialized certificates, concatenated together * serialized private key (to which the last certificate delegates authority) @@ -687,11 +692,15 @@ at the end. Some examples: + (example A) cert[0] delegates account 1,4 to (pubkey ZlFA / privkey 1f2S): + sa0-A1,4D2lFA6LboL2xx0ldQH2K1TdSrwuqMMiME3E...1f2SI9UJPXvb7vdJ1 + (example B) cert[0] delegates account 1,4 to ZlFA/1f2S cert[1] subdelegates 5GB and subaccount 1,4,7 to pubkey 0BPo/06rt: + sa0-A1,4D2lFA6LboL2xx0ldQH2K1TdSrwuqMMiME3E...A1,4,7S5000000000D0BPoGxJ3M4KWrmdpLnknhJABrWip5e9kPE,7cyhQvv5axdeihmOzIHjs85TcUIYiWHdsxNz50GTerEOR5ucj2TITPXxyaCUli1oF...06rtcPQotR3q4f2cT