[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #573: Allow client to control which storage servers receive shares

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#573: Allow client to control which storage servers receive shares
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 Reporter:  swillden            |           Owner:           
     Type:  enhancement         |          Status:  new      
 Priority:  minor               |       Milestone:  undecided
Component:  code-peerselection  |         Version:  1.2.0    
 Keywords:                      |   Launchpad_bug:           
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Comment(by midnightmagic):

 My use-case is to specify which servers receive the lion's share of the
 blocks, for two reasons:

 1. To ensure that known-reliable machines receive the most blocks.

 2. To ensure that the space is used in a way I want to control manually.

 For example, even though one of my machines in my home storage grid has
 multiple TB of relatively reliable storage space on it, I would prefer to
 use that as sparingly as possible and instead dump most of them on
 machines that are allocated specifically to the task of '''being''' a
 Tahoe storage node.

 Also, out of those Tahoe nodes that are participating, I happen to know
 that machines X, Y, and Z are extremely reliable, whereas others have had
 flakey drive bus issues in the past. I want X, Y, and Z to definitely get
 blocks.. and the rest of them, maybe.

 So I'll be using this feature for sure. :-)

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Ticket URL: <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/573#comment:5>
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