[2751] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Please increase quota for project.gimp.alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Sun Apr 27 22:38:48 1997
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:56:44 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:37:06 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> Hi, based on a conversation over zephyr, it looks like you were doing
> gimp builds in AFS, and keeping most of the build trees around.
> Although there is some very small value in keeping build trees around,
> software packaging has generally gotten to the point where the value
> is almost nil, and it merely puts an undue load on our disk resources.
> Thus, although I can't unanimously set policy for the SIPB AFS
> maintainers, I would like to deny this request. Another AFS
> maintainer can override me if they think I'm wrong.
The software is currently under development which
means that I am sometimes trying to debug and write code.
As such, it is valuable having build trees around for at least
one platform. It is not possible to fit even a single build
tree (plus source) in the current volume. In addition, the
size of source and binaries for each platform is quite large.
> If you actually need more than 90MB of space for the sources and
> installations, then there's no problem with that; just get back to me
> about it.
I think keeping around only a single build tree at a time
is reasonable for software that is under development.
I'd appreciate it if you could increase the quota to
130MB then (rather than the 180MB previously asked for).
If you feel this is unreasonable, please let me know.
Thanks,
Erik
