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Will the 100GB sharing limit be raised?
I was wondering if the 100GB sharing limit will be raised any time soon. I understand if you don't want a lot of data on a single hard drive but I feel that if you have earned a certain amount of uptime you should be able to share more than 100GB of file space to earn more space.
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Inappropriate?ATM I get ~1/2 GB of fragments each day... which is mostly limited by uploading speeds on the other part of the connection I guess.
In a few days the first beta testers will start their maintenace-frenzy (after 1 week I guess?) so be prepared, storage-nodes!
About your actual problem: I doubt it will be "fixed" anytime soon I fear. Maybe this year but my magic 8-Ball says "around Q1 2009" for this. -
Inappropriate?VMWARE is your friend. The 100GB sharing limit is generous considering you actually won't have to use all that physical space for trading. I've been on Wuala since alpha and I'm sharing 15GB out 100GB physical space. At some point, Wuala needs to factor in real-world contributions like GB downloaded and GB uploaded. The current system is too easy to abuse. At one point, I was up to 400GB of trade space using 5 VMWARE sessions on one PC. My feeling is ... its best to figure out ways to abuse Wuala system before mass release. :)1 Comment
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Yeah, it's far too easy to exploit atm. but I want to stay fair... but I'm not gonna be muchlonger if this doesn't change "soon" (tm). -
Inappropriate?Well assuming that Wuala actually sticks around for a few years I should have FiOS by then and will have at least 20mb/s upload. So I think that it would be useful if I could hold more than 100GB because I should have around 80% uptime and feel like it would be useful for the system as a whole. -
Inappropriate?We will change that, but it doesn't have a high priority at the moment. We think that increasing realibilty and fixing bugs is much more important.1 Comment Add a comment
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Good to hear, obviously fixing bugs is more important I was just curious.
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Inappropriate?I've noticed another thing, wuala doesn't check how much space is available. I've got a 80gb drive trading. I set the limit to 100gb and everything worked perfectly. So here's another thing to fix, when you have the time ;)
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Inappropriate?I think it would be great if Wuala allocates the reserved space (e.g. fills it with zeros) for preventing low space availability.3 Comments Add a comment
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I disagree, right now I am sharing 100GB and the space in there on my HD. But I know that I can use 50GB+ of the space I have allocated to Wuala because right now people have only stored around 15GB out of the 100GB.
Sorry if that is wordly poorly but basically I disagree because I can use that space before it actually needs to be used by Wuala members. -
I also think it's a bad idea to preallocate all the reserved space.
Slows down because of virus scanners, when you make a backup of your harddisk, system has more work when defragmenting etc. -
i see what you mean. But if you trade 50GB but then copy something onto the same drive decreasing the free space below 50GB Wuala has to check every time if there is really so much free space as you want to trade.
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Inappropriate?I think it will be better on your disk to preallocate. Avoids fragmentation by size not changeing. My problem is i HAVE 100GB but can seem to get 10% of it filled to get all my space. Its like it slowed to a crawl after 2.7GB traded.
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Inappropriate?Maybe the idea I had earlier could be useful - Cache + Fragments in the same Database + Folder, although that would probably mean a bigger rewrite but could be really woth it, since a big cache is a good thing for Wuala, anonymous maintenance would maintain your cache as well, you get more fragements actively + quicker, you could disable the "fill 10% get 100%" rule to prevent cheating, you could just reserve 90% of that space for "3rd party" fragments and 10% for the cache.
I'm not sure however if Wuala needs its cache to be in whole encrypted files or if downloaded files could be accessed fast enough if they are fragments and encrypted.
Still the possibility would be there to store all fragments you download (active + passively) in your Fragments2 folder, but give priority to passively downloaded ones. That way you would spread popular files better in the P2P cloud, people could get more space more actively and it wouldn't harm the current idea of letting Wuala decide which files to spread where, since after some time the "passive" fragments would eliminate the "active" ones.
Is something like this possible in the long run (I guess another rewrite would be needed... ;-) ) or is this idea just rubbish because ...?
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