[tahoe-dev] How does file deletion work?

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Tue Jul 14 23:27:47 UTC 2009


Hello,

David Triendl <david at triendl.name> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:

[...]

>> 5. So by unlinking a file from all directories, in the absence, of any
>> explicit renewal requests, it will be deleted from the grid.
> Yes, but you can also just abandon the whole directory, which will yield the
> same results.

Or, if you don't trust storage servers for being available, or for
faithfully implementing the lease mechanism, anything may vanish at any
time.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo'.




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