Reduce disk size

[Alexey]

@Pac

why you would trust all the other pieces still on the node…

You wrapped up the problem exactly around the right word - “trust”.
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Ingress repair in my nodes

Nope, they won’t be considered lost. It’s impossible to audit every piece frequently. So instead of bothering to track the health of individual pieces, the satellite determines whether your node can be trusted to have the pieces based on sparse audits and statistical inference. So if you delete a piece, that will only matter if that piece happens to get an audit. And since a single audit won’t get your node disqualified, losing a single piece is not a problem.

@Pac

What you’re saying is basically that money has already been spent for repairing some pieces, so instead of paying again for checking there’re still fine on the “back online node”, StorjLabs prefers deleting them altogether to avoid “double spending”.

exactly.

@Pac

It makes sense, but then my suggestion of “partial repair” would make sense. Wouldn’t it? ^^

Unfortunately not. The repair is already happened, since you saw deletions of offline pieces, so we cannot save some expenses on that. If the satellite does not delete pieces it should pay for them. The customer will not pay to the satellite operator for extra pieces, so this payment for additional redundancy should go from the satellite operator’s pocket. Why they would want this?
Please note - there is a great chance that the second repair may never happen, so why to pay in advance?