From 1eb497fccb121808503fa0b8f5cd54340dc3b9fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Hru=C5=A1ka?= Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 20:22:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] more docs --- README.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6e56a1b..7624dbd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,8 +9,14 @@ produced by Fediverse bots (think an interactive game where the game board is rendered to an image or a text file on demand). There are sure to be many other uses I didn't think of. +The server internally uses hash-based de-duplication with reference counting. +If the same file is uploaded more than once, only one copy is stored in memory +(and on disk). + The uploaded files have a lifetime of 10 minutes, which can be shortened or -extended up to 1 hour (or more, as configured). +extended up to 1 hour (or more, as configured). If file-backed persistence +is enabled (off by default), all uploaded (non-expired) files will survive +server restart. ## Config file