nothing you will need to worry about, also storj will eventually be better at cleaning up after the satellites… but it’s almost impossible to avoid getting data on a drive that isn’t used for anything…
like say if you damage your database… then it might lack a few files when restored, how would it keep track of those… atleast until it’s programming is fixed to somehow clean up after even those rare cases.
i just migrated my node, and then i launched it incorrectly because it was running when i started rsync and i had forgotten, so the database was malformed… so i had to shut it down again… rsync it again… and didn’t ask it to delete the files it had gotten while running… so in theory those will not be in the old database… but all the other files would be and thus a few minutes of up time, would really take much space…
but i would rather leave the files rather than ask rsync to delete them,because then eventually it would cause failed audits most likely…
i got a 14tb node, but the older a node gets the more lost files will be around… but the better storj will also get at removing them…
and really harddisk space is evolving fast enough that the amount of space lost, is and will always be so little that cleaning it up is… like… for my 7 month node it was 13mb… for brightsilence his was 3 gb i think he said, and his node is significantly older than mine and about the same size.
so it seems maybe storj already got better at cleaning it up… really we are talking about maybe 2 or 3gb a year max… on a 14tb node, sure it’s space… but its like nothing will maybe cost you 1$ over 10 years… so is it worth worrying over…