To use this, write a number like 10MB or 5Gb or 5000000000 to a file
named 'sizelimit' in the client's base directory. The node will not grant
leases for shares that would take it much beyond this many bytes of
storage. Note that metadata is not included in the allocation count until
a restart, so the actual space consumed may grow beyond the limit if
the node is not restarted very frequently and the amount of metadata is
significant.
Added metadata to the bucket store, which is used to hold the share number
(but the bucket doesn't know that, it just gets a string).
Modified the codec interfaces a bit.
Try to pass around URIs to/from download/upload instead of verifierids.
URI format is still in flux.
Change the current (primitive) file encoder to use a ReplicatingEncoder
because it provides ICodecEncoder. We will be moving to the (less primitive)
file encoder (currently in allmydata.encode_new) eventually, but for now
this change lets us test out PyRS or zooko's upcoming C-based RS codec in
something larger than a single unit test. This primitive file encoder only
uses a single segment, and has no merkle trees.
Also added allmydata.util.deferredutil for a DeferredList wrapper that
errbacks (but only when all component Deferreds have fired) if there were
any errors, which unfortunately is not a behavior available from the standard
DeferredList.