Ok got it. It will be a bit short notice. I expect just a few days between signing the contracts and the uploads hitting our nodes. So with the surge nodes we can buy time for the network to adopt to the new situation.
Yes. I am a node operator myself and fully agree on that. I have communicated that point to the stakeholders already. If we are lucky they might make a commitment to take the risk of no deal signed from the table. If the deals are getting signed we get a higher payout and if the deals are not getting signed we also get a higher payout. That would also allow us to start growing in advance. That commitment isn’t on me so lets wait and see how it will look like.
Could you please open a new thread for that and ask [@] elek how he did it? To my knowledge he managed to get a storage node down to a few minutes file walker with an inode cache. I don’t know the details but he can share his knowledge.