From: Brian Warner Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:08:42 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs/configuration.txt: expand the 'sizelimit' docs X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.7.0~246 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/somewhere?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c4ae0efcd68f0fe755da32fc90e81b33aaf6cc22;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs/configuration.txt: expand the 'sizelimit' docs --- diff --git a/docs/configuration.txt b/docs/configuration.txt index dc61a77a..7a54437e 100644 --- a/docs/configuration.txt +++ b/docs/configuration.txt @@ -53,8 +53,14 @@ for debugging. To cause the node to accept SSH connections on port 8022, symlink "authorized_keys.8022" to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, and it will accept the same keys as the rest of your account. -sizelimit: If present, this file limits the storage for share data on -this client. +sizelimit: If present, this file establishes an upper bound (in bytes) on the +amount of storage consumed by share data (data that your node holds on behalf +of clients that are uploading files to the grid). To avoid providing more +than 100MB of data to other clients, write "100000000" into this file. Note +that this is a fairly loose bound, and the node may occasionally use slightly +more storage than this. To enforce a stronger (and possibly more reliable) +limit, use a symlink to place the 'storage/' directory on a separate +size-limited filesystem, and/or use per-user OS/filesystem quotas. == Node State ==