Can I control the amount of storage/bandwidth dedicated to IPFS?

[whyrusleeping]

Currently, no, but these are features that are planned for the near future.

[voidzero]

In the meantime it might be interesting to use ipfs together with firejail. With firejail it is possible to run ipfs in its own namespaces, with a dedicated macvlan device, of which traffic can be shaped. There are additional benefits as well, like routing only ipfs through a VPN, using a specific IPv4 or IPv6 address, chrooting, and securing with seccomp and capability limiting.

[llopv]

You can define the maximum allowed storage in the datastore at .ipfs/config file. Default is 10GB.

[ghost]

You can define the maximum allowed storage in the datastore at .ipfs/config file. Default is 10GB.

That setting doesn't actually put a hard limit on storage usage -- right now it's only used in relation to garbage collection.

[madavieb]

This issue has been moved to https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/can-i-control-the-amount-of-storage-bandwidth-dedicated-to-ipfs/395.