creation of a "virtual CD" as easily as dragging a folder onto a user icon.
-LEASES, REFRESHING, GARBAGE COLLECTION
+LEASES, REFRESHING, GARBAGE COLLECTION, QUOTAS
Shares are uploaded to a storage server, but they do not necessarily stay
there forever. We are anticipating three main share-lifetime management modes
expire and cancel all leases for the account, and 3) centralized account
management without expiration timers.
+To be clear, none of these have been implemented yet. The
+http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/QuotaManagement "Quota Management" wiki
+page describes some of our plans for managing data lifetime and limited-space
+user accounts.
+
Multiple clients may be interested in a given share, for example if two
clients uploaded the same file, or if two clients are sharing a directory and
both want to make sure the files therein remain available. Consequently, each
concocted, in this case in a car ride from Boulder to DEN. To be
precise, "tahoe 1" was an unworkable scheme in which everyone who holds
shares for a given file would form a sort of cabal which kept track of
- all the others, "tahoe 2" is the first-100-peers in the permuted hash,
- and this document descibes "tahoe 3", or perhaps "potrero hill 1".
+ all the others, "tahoe 2" is the first-100-peers in the permuted hash
+ described in this document, and "tahoe 3" (or perhaps "potrero hill 1")
+ was the abandoned ring-with-many-hands approach.