Re: [tahoe-dev] use case request for accounting/leasedb

2012-10-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 19/10/12 00:09, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > Okay, great! I was very confused to think that querying and changing > leases would be a long expensive process. That's the whole *point* of > leasedb is to make that fast and reliable. Duh. > > I agree that the protocol you sketched out in your ema

Re: [tahoe-dev] use case request for accounting/leasedb

2012-10-18 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Okay, great! I was very confused to think that querying and changing leases would be a long expensive process. That's the whole *point* of leasedb is to make that fast and reliable. Duh. I agree that the protocol you sketched out in your email would work, including that the client can wait for con

Re: [tahoe-dev] use case request for accounting/leasedb

2012-10-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
On 18/10/12 20:48, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:29 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood > wrote: >> >>> The only difference between this and the current scheme is that the >>> storage server will never do that on its own — it only does it when >>> you tell it that it is okay to do it

Re: [tahoe-dev] use case request for accounting/leasedb

2012-10-18 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:29 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > >> The only difference between this and the current scheme is that the >> storage server will never do that on its own — it only does it when >> you tell it that it is okay to do it. > > Okay, so I think this means that lease expiry --