isle/docs/operator/contributing-storage.md

Contributing Storage

This document is for you if your host machine can be reliably be online at all times and has 1GB or more of unused drive space you'd like to contribute to the network.

Edit daemon.yml

Open your /etc/isle/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 is 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 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.

Removing Allocations

If you later decide to no longer provide storage simply remove the storage.allocations item from your /etc/isle/daemon.yml file and restart the isle daemon process.

Once removed, it is advisable to wait some time before turning off the daemon or deleting the data from the data and meta directories which were previously allocated to. This gives other hosts in the network time to offload all data that yours was previously hosting.

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.