From: Brian Warner Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:47:08 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs/configuration.txt: explain the current limitations of readonly_storage X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.1.0~49 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/com_hotproperty/flags/reliability?a=commitdiff_plain;h=699d912d80ceae1052a8025f5944de386e92094c;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs/configuration.txt: explain the current limitations of readonly_storage --- diff --git a/docs/configuration.txt b/docs/configuration.txt index f9d3b9b3..a7487a01 100644 --- a/docs/configuration.txt +++ b/docs/configuration.txt @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ readonly_storage (optional): If this file is present (the contents do not matter), the node will run a storage server but will not accept any shares, making it effectively read-only. Use this for storage servers which are being decommissioned: the storage/ directory could be mounted read-only, while -shares are moved to other servers. +shares are moved to other servers. Note that this currently only affects +immutable shares. Mutable shares (used for directories) will be written and +modified anyway. See ticket #390 for the current status of this bug. sizelimit (optional): If present, this file establishes an upper bound (in bytes) on the amount of storage consumed by share data (data that your node