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Trading space utilization after reaching 100GB limit
I've reached trading space limit on my Wuala instances some months ago. Is this space being managed or reused in any way? As file system doesn't indicate any recent changes to the 'Fragments2' directory, I presume that my traded space contents have just been "fixed in stone" at the time the limit has been reached. If that's really the case, that would be quite inefficient as with the time passing, more and more obsolete (deleted from the cloud) data would clutter the traded space. Could someone give some statement regarding that? Or maybe the current situation is just that there is so plenty unused traded space that the wasted fragments just doesn't concern the Wuala team that much yet? If that's the current status, are there any plans to change that strategy in some predictable future?
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Inappropriate?I can't say for certain (a dev would know the specifics), but I think you would be surprised how little data is obsolete.
My main trading server was "set in stone" in march but see's fairly heavy traffic.
Edit: The reason I say this is because I do not believe there to be a high churn rate of the large files that make up the majority of used space in the cloud. -
Inappropriate?We don't delete old fragments from nodes because it's not necessary at the moment. We might change this in the future if it becomes a problem.
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Inappropriate?Hmm... One thing is that if I agreed to trade some amount of space, it shouldn't bother me as long as I'm credited for the space contributed. But on the other hand - it's not good to know that quite fair amount of the data stored on my hard drive could never be useful for anyone anymore (wasted...). Furthermore, one can see some more "psychological" aspect of that strategy: when you delete something, that's quite natural to expect that the data will be physically removed - not only derefferenced. I know that from the technical point of view it doesn't really matter as the data is so fragmented, scattered and (in the first place) encrypted, but, anyway, I could imagine that making someone feel "unconfortable" ;-) Even a cleanup triggered by some batch job once a month would be great. I suspect that would be non-trivial task and probably require even a rebuild of the "Fragments2" datastore (I guess that for now, FragmentsXXX.dat files are just being appended sequentially and indexed). Anyway, I just don't like the fact I could potentially be storing several GBs of waste data (deleted months ago, for example) indefinitely.
I’m a little concerned
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