From fe5b440f3175a05e404ab981d2d533097da75080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: terrell <> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:20:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clarity tweaks [Imported from Trac: page VolunteerGrid, version 30] --- VolunteerGrid.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/VolunteerGrid.md b/VolunteerGrid.md index c5bc62d..b96723d 100644 --- a/VolunteerGrid.md +++ b/VolunteerGrid.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # About -The volunteergrid is a tahoe storage grid from users for users. Contrary to the [TestGrid](TestGrid)–which may be flushed at any times for development/testing reasons–the volunteergrid is meant as a stable alternative to the commercial [allmydata.com grid](http://allmydata.com/). It was [proposed by Eugene L.](http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-February/001248.html) in February 2009 and an introducer [was set up](http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-February/001341.html) by Zooko after the idea received a fair amount of praise. There are usually between 15 and 20 active servers, but new servers are always welcome. +The volunteergrid is a tahoe storage grid from users for users. Contrary to the [TestGrid](TestGrid)–which may be flushed at any time for development/testing reasons–the volunteergrid is meant as a stable alternative to the commercial [allmydata.com grid](http://allmydata.com/). It was [proposed by Eugene L.](http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-February/001248.html) in February 2009 and an introducer [was set up](http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-February/001341.html) by Zooko after the idea received a fair amount of praise. There are usually between 15 and 20 active server nodes, but new nodes are always welcome. # Setting up a volunteergrid (storage) node @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The volunteergrid is a tahoe storage grid from users for users. Contrary to the # Best practices * If you destroy data (by accident or decision), let us know! Please inform us on the mailing list or ping us on IRC. - * Please provide at least as much space as you use. (Don't forget to consider the redundancy factor: If you upload 1 GB of data, the grid will receive 3.33 GB of encoded data.) + * Please provide at least as much space as you use. (Don't forget to consider the redundancy factor: If you upload 1 GB of data, the grid will receive 3.33 GB of encoded data (3-of-10 encoding = 10/3 x file size = 3.33 x file size).) # Links * [Map of servers and people involved with the volunteergrid](http://webcontent.osm.lab.rfc822.org/tahoe/) @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The volunteergrid is a tahoe storage grid from users for users. Contrary to the * [Public web interface (soultcer.net)](http://tahoe.soultcer.net) provided by David T. # Servers -## Introducer (Nooxie.zooko.com) +## Introducer (nooxie.zooko.com) nooxie is located in a co-lo in San Francisco. It is an athlon64 server running release "NCP1" of Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris ( ). It has two identical SATA drives of about 33 GB capacity each in a ZFS RAID-Z mirror, at the time of this writing about 5 GB free. Its uptime is (on 2009-07-11), 72 days, which is when we upgraded it to Nexenta NCP1 final from an early beta release of Nexenta NCP1. uname -a says: `SunOS nooxie 5.11 NexentaOS_20080312 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris` ## Storage Nodes