By writing something like "25 75 100" into a file named 'encoding_parameters'
in the central Introducer's base directory, all clients which use that
introducer will be advised to use 25-out-of-100 encoding for files (i.e.
100 shares will be produced, 25 are required to reconstruct, and the upload
process will be happy if it can find homes for at least 75 shares). The
default values are "3 7 10". For small meshes, the defaults are probably
good, but for larger ones it may be appropriate to increase the number of
shares.
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.
These allow client-side code to conveniently retrieve the IDirectoryNode
instances for both the global shared public root directory, and the per-user
private root directory.
Rather than use separate client.pem and introducer.pem files, use 'node.pem'
for all nodes regardless of what type it is. This is slightly cleaner, but
introduces a compatibility. Users who upgrade to this change should do
'mv client.pem node.pem' to avoid generating a new certificate and thus
changing their TubID.
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.
