Hello,
I have a question: can you pin content that exceeds your node’s capacity?
Let say I want to pin 20Gb in a node that is limited to 10Gb, what will happen?
Thank you very much for your help!!
Yes, node capacity isn’t a limit, it’s a threashold upon to run GC (garbage-collecetion, or removing old blocks you don’t need anymore).
You also need to run the daemon with ipfs daemon --enable-gc for the limit to even do something.
If you were to pin a 20Gig file on a 10Gig node, the GC would just trigger at each interval 1h by default.
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That is really helpful thank you very much!