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Kind of curious how you can actually ensure they actually have that unused space available. The article said it had to be empty.. couldn't someone just write th
by bostonsre 6y ago
Kind of curious how you can actually ensure they actually have that unused space available. The article said it had to be empty.. couldn't someone just write their own disk driver that lies about the size of the drive?
- ChainOfFools 6y agoit probably writes and MD5's a giant sparse file with some salt lightly scattered throughout it in order to force allocation of the space or fail hash test.
- DougN7 6y agoI’ve wondered that too. If you wrote your own client you could lie about the hashes, so there must be something else to it. I have a farmer going and maybe every 10 minutes the hard disk spins up for what sounds like very little I/O so it’s definitely not checking the entire 100GB plot file.
- wmf 6y agoChia doesn't rely on empty space; it fills the space with useless data.