[tahoe-dev] new stable grid volunteers

[Benjamin Jansen]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Luke Scharf wrote:

> Andrej Falout wrote:
>> Thanks Brian,
>>
>> We could also bring sizelimit= back as is, with a warning that it  
>> may take a
>>
>>> long time to reatart the node when there are a lot of shares.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes please, as without it the volunteers grid will not be an option  
>> for a
>> number of people, including me.
>>
>> I am assuming it should be easy to bypass space checks completely,  
>> when the
>> variable sizelimit= is not set, so it should not have negative  
>> impact on
>> anyone not specifying a value there.
>>
>
> I know that this may not apply to your situation, but it seems like
> running the Tahoe node in a VM of some sort is a good idea.  That  
> would
> put the Tahoe server into it's own security-container -- so, in the
> unlikely event that some catastrophic security bug were found in the
> node-daemon, the rest of your stuff would be protected.

For this use case (worried about storage size more than security  
flaws), you could put the node's storage dir on its own partition.  
Storage is limited to whatever amount you wish, and any bug in tahoe's  
storage limiting code cannot override that limit.

- Ben