Graceful Exit Revamp

[jammerdan]

@BrightSilence

Since effectively, graceful exit doesn’t save on repair costs at all anymore.

That was exactly my thought. Thanks for confirming this.
So what will that mean for held amounts? With that new approach with GE even costing repair money why should the held amount be returned?
Is there really no more direct transfer between nodes taking place? Basically the only way to save money?

@Ruskiem

First of all its bad priorities, because why making exit easier?

Interesting view. I have heard users have been shutting down nodes because they needed the space now. Couldn’t be bothered with waiting for user deletions or even GE.
Being able to offload data to reclaim space would be one of the useful priorities. Of course this has been mentioned in the past already:

Reduce storage / partial graceful "exit"

My understanding of the current in-progress graceful exit feature is that it only covers a total removal of a node. Since the idea of Storj is to make use of unused storage, it would be nice to add a feature that allows the disk space used by storagenode to be reduced without leaving the network. Example: Someone has allocated 2TB to the network and 1.5TB is used. This person now needs 1TB of that 2TB disk space back and would like to allocate only 1TB to the network, reducing the node’s stora…