isle/docs/operator/contributing-storage.md

Contributing Storage

If your host machine can be reasonably sure of being online most, if not all, of the time, and has 100GB or more of unused drive space you'd like to contribute to the network, then this document is for you.

Create daemon.yml

First, if you haven't already, create a daemon.yml file. This will be used to configure your isle daemon process with the storage locations and capacities you want to contribute.

Edit daemon.yml

Open your daemon.yml file in a text editor, and find the storage.allocations section.

Each allocation in the allocations list describes the space being contributed from a single physical drive. If you only have one drive then you will only need one allocation listed.

The comments in the file should be self-explanatory, but ask your admin if you need any clarification.

Here are an example set of allocations for a host which is contributing space from two separate drives:

storage:
  allocations:

    # 1.2 TB are being shared from drive1
    - data_path: /mnt/drive1/isle/data
      meta_path: /mnt/drive1/isle/meta
      capacity: 1200

    # 100 GB (the minimum) are being shared from drive2
    - data_path: /mnt/drive2/isle/data
      meta_path: /mnt/drive2/isle/meta
      capacity: 100

Set Up Your Firewall

See the doc on Firewalls, to be sure that your host's firewall is properly set up for providing storage.

Restart the Daemon

With the daemon.yml configured, you should restart your isle daemon process.

The isle daemon will automatically allow the ports used for your storage allocations in the vpn firewall.

Further Reading

Isle uses the garage project for its storage system. See the Managing Garage document for more information on how to interact directly with the garage instance being run by isle.