How many plots does this do? #261
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I can't seem to figure out how many plots does the system do once running? it will just go until the drive is completely full? what if I add drives/changer ssd cards mid plotting? how would that work? |
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Plotman runs continuously, continuously starting new plot jobs to the 'dst' drives and continuously moving those plots to whatever disks it can find with free space on the farmer (archiving). You can add drives on the farmer and plotman will just keep filling whatever is there. You can just keep buying drives forever. :) Adding tmp or dst drives is also theoretically possible. Removing drives is more delicate since you'd need to make sure they're not in use by any in-flight jobs. Side note: if you just want a simple fixed number of plots to a single drive, you should probably just run the plotter yourself; Plotman wouldn't be doing much for you. |
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Understood. So I just chnage the config file to more destinations if I add additional storage? Thanks for the insight! |
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@LogenP you must restart plotman whenever you change config file. Check Readme and FAQ for more basic info |
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Plotman runs continuously, continuously starting new plot jobs to the 'dst' drives and continuously moving those plots to whatever disks it can find with free space on the farmer (archiving). You can add drives on the farmer and plotman will just keep filling whatever is there. You can just keep buying drives forever. :) Adding tmp or dst drives is also theoretically possible. Removing drives is more delicate since you'd need to make sure they're not in use by any in-flight jobs.
Side note: if you just want a simple fixed number of plots to a single drive, you should probably just run the plotter yourself; Plotman wouldn't be doing much for you.