[tahoe-dev] Benchmark and scaling figures and how to lockdown a tahoe-lafs grid...

David-Sarah Hopwood david-sarah at jacaranda.org
Mon Nov 8 14:45:04 UTC 2010


On 2010-11-07 23:01, Shawn Willden wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jimmy Tang <jcftang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> this may sound like a silly question, I was reading through the
>> configuration.txt file again to look up the M and K values, but which one is
>> the M value?
>>
>> shares.needed = (int, optional) aka "k", default 3
>> shares.total = (int, optional) aka "N", N >= k, default 10
>> shares.happy = (int, optional) 1 <= happy <= N, default 7
>>
>> I get the impression M is the total number of shares (or machines?)
> 
> M is shares.total.  I thought the documentation used "M", not "N" for that
> and "N" for the number of available storage servers.

No, the documentation uses "N" for shares.total. (If you find a
counterexample, it's a documentation bug.)

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