Sorry for bringing this back from the past; I just stumbled upod the topic. Can you clarify something for noob SNOs like me that don’t read the entire White Paper and don’t understand code?
From reading through this topic I understand that there is this Filewalker process that runs after a node restart, cecks all the space occupied by the files and report it back to satellites. Normaly, it runs after each node restart, but what if it can be set to run only after updates, by making a special file in the Storj directory where the update process sets “Filewalker - ON” after a succesfull update, restarts the node, and than Filewalker checks that switch; if it’s ON, it will start, and after finishing, will modify it to “Filewalker - OFF”. In this way, restarting the node will not trigger the Filewalker, only a successful update will, that happens 2-3 times a month.
And second, I see that they enabled a switch to turn it off. If there is an update, it will run no matter what? Or is OFF for good? Is is bad for the network/ storagenode oparation, if I set it OFF and never switch it back to ON? Is there an official guide to handle this or some official recomandations?
Sorry but we are not all code wizards to understand stuff and make easy decitions.