much free disk space as there will be simultaneous uploads. When an upload
is interrupted, that space will be used for a longer period of time.
-To turn a Tahoe client node into a helper (i.e. to run a helper service in
-addition to whatever else that node is doing), just create a file in your
-node's base directory named "run_helper", and put any non-empty string in it.
-Then restart the node:
+To turn a Tahoe-LAFS node into a helper (i.e. to run a helper service in
+addition to whatever else that node is doing), edit the tahoe.cfg file in your
+node's base directory and set "enabled = true" in the section named
+"[helper]". Then restart the node:
echo "yes" >$BASEDIR/run_helper
tahoe restart $BASEDIR