There really needs to be more status reporting from the platform

[Alexey]

Make the node crash with a fatal error if the storage path becomes unavailable

While similar to the suggestion posted here, the implementation of this one should require no changes to satellite code and focuses on taking the node offline instead of failing audits, when a storage location becomes unavailable. After discussing with @kevink we decided this is different enough to post as a separate suggestion. We seem to have 2 issues that we want to prevent. The node starts over at 0 if the mount point isn’t available at start. The node keeps running if the storage locatio…

Prevent broken mount points from DQing nodes

We have read it multiple times that mount points are breaking, were done wrong after moving a node or replacing the harddrive. This often results in the nodes being DQed for missing pieces. This is my proposal to solve this problem: When the node starts, it checks in with the satellite. Now without any files, the node doesn’t know if it is new or pretty old. So let the satellite answer the check-in with some information about the node (e.g. used space on the satellite or 20 random piece-ids or…