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@odarriba

My point is: why not letting us choose if we want to execute it automatically or not (by default, automatically) and let us manage update checks and updates by our own?

While this is not something officially supported by Storj, you don’t need to run Storj updater. You can just fetch the storage node binary and run it explicitly, even outside of Docker if you want. This is the script that currently manages the updating process.

@odarriba

It may be sensible to schedule the execution of the updater everyday at midnight, so I can check if there is an available update for my node and apply it in a “safe” hour.

Storj wants uncorrelated restarts. By eye-balling the map it seems that a significant chunk of nodes is hosted in a single time zone. If suddenly most of them were to disappear for a few minutes because of an upgrade, integrity of the whole network would be at risk.

@odarriba

the filewalker smashes it when the node restarts

There are ways to lessen the impact of the file walker process, for example by choosing the right file system. I wish this was documented in the official manual…