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Hi People,
I am running multiple PCs at home each with at least 2 HDDs. 1 of the HDDs is meant as a backup for 'more important' files or simply to add more storage. Now my problem is that Wuala can only use space on one partition. This means that I cannot share all the space that I don't need simply because I cannot divide it.

I would love to see an option which allows me to share Folders on different partitions and set a seperate sharing-limit on each of them.

I hope that this is possible and feasible for you to integrate since it would help me a lot!

Thanks,
Darkstriker

It would be nice to be able to pre allocate shared storage space, to avoid file system fragmentation. Even if this method allocated large blocks of space, like 1 gb at a time, it would still reduce the fragmentation.

Hi people,

as most of you may have recognized, when you install Wuala, your uptime is automatically set to 10%. Now the support team somewhere here posted that if you stay online for an entire day, you increase this by approximately 3%. Doing the quite simple math you will find that wuala therefore assumes 29 days of an approximate uptime of 10%. Therefore even if I have a server online 24/7/4 (i.e. 28 days), my uptime will only be 55%. I realize that that is a measure to restrict people from getting lots of online space very quickly but I find it myself very irritating and not particularly fair to those who from day 1 on contribute a server to the network with relatively good upload and a lot of space. (How good I am as a contributer my be disputed but for now, 15gb@50kbps 24h/day is definitely quite a bit)
I agree, that giving me 15gb of space (plus 1gb for basic and 1gb/invitation) is very much. Also, if every user can get almost 100% in some time, the system will never work out because you can have a maximum of 1version of a file online at the same time in the long run which effectively means that there is no rundancy and files can quite easily be offline for an entire day.

Thus my idea:

Maybe calculate 5-10days of 10% online time for people starting and instead of giving "Sharedspace"*"Uptime"="OnlineStorage" only give half the online storage in return.Or maybe 3/4.

Anways, I think that would be more fair to those who contribute a lot (setting up servers) and would also allow for more rundancy.

Last but not least I believe that nobody is seriously going to need 100% of his space back. Online space in any case is far more valuable than offline space which makes quala so interesting in the first place. Therefore I believe that you can very well only give 50%-75% of the space back and in exchage allow for higher rundancy and secured on-time.

Furthermore I would also opt to remove the local backup or at least archive the files on the servers in such a way, that the local backup is a max of 5% the total size (so it being rundancy information for the archive)