start lotus storage provider

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start lotus storage provider

The role Lotus storage providers play

• receive storage deals, respond to client requests.
• calculate windowpost and winning post.
• sealing jobs management and schedule.

check lotus status

Lotus storage provider need to access Lotus daemon before doing his job.

• If Lotus storage provider running on the same machine as Lotus Damon. it will talk to Lotus Damon through 127.0.0.1:1234.

• If Lotus storage provider running on a different machine as Lotus Daemon. it will talk to Lotus Daemon through environment variables FULLNODE_API_INFO, Please make sure you set this environment variable correctly before you run Lotus storage provider. it's crucial on later step

1. make sure lotus is synced

lotus sync wait

goto the next step if you get a Done! as return value.

2. create a wallet address and found it

lotus wallet new bls

buy some small amount FIL and send to this wallet address to active it.

set the location of the Lotus storage provider

The default path of Lotus storage provider is located at ~/.lotusminer. you should set the environment variable LOTUS_MINER_PATH if you want to change the path.

start Lotus storage provider

1. init the program

lotus-miner init 

There are two options you should pay attention to.

• --owner use this option when you want to specify the exact wallet address.

• --no-local-storage use this when you have dedicated storage for sectors.

2. start the program

nohup　lotus-miner run >> miner.log 2>&1 &

Split the Markets Subsystem(optional)

Highly recommended for this step. see this tutorial page.

export Lotus storage provider api

lotus-miner auth api-info --perm admin

You will get something like this MINER_API_INFO=eyJhbGciOiJIU:/ip4/192.168.0.105/tcp/2345/http. export this environment variable to the host which you want to connect to storage provider node by API or CLI.

check Lotus storage provider status

lotus-miner info

typical questions

1. ERROR: resolve address f3******: actor not found
   You need to initialize that wallet on chain first you can do this with lotus send f3... 0