diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 6631ccb..9200b92 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -190,3 +190,9 @@ A: See [CompileError](CompileError). **Q27: Is IPv6 supported?** A: Not yet, see ticket #867. + +**Q28: How to delete files/folder from Tahoe-LAFS grid?** + +A: Tahoe-LAFS is designed to allow multiple users to access the same files. You wouldn't like it if one day a file of yours had been deleted by somebody else, right? Therefore, we have to solve The Garbage Collection Problem. The current solution is: do lease-renewal every month or so, and delete any files that nobody has lease-renewed in more than a month or so. + +For more details read [Garbage Collection in Tahoe](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/garbage-collection.rst).