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Re: /svn/athena r23449 - trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Feb 5 13:40:40 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:39:39 -0500
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
The reason why this is an improvement is that with quotas so large,
people are getting warnings when they're not useful. The amount of
free space is too large, even though they're getting a warning.
Release Team discussed this and said that a fixed quota warning would
be better.
-Bill
On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Greg Price wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:33:08AM -0500, broder@MIT.EDU wrote:
>> + * Warn when 100M short of quota, instead of when at 90%.
>
> Why is this an improvement? Seems like a percentage will scale more
> gracefully as quotas and file sizes grow in the future than a fixed
> number of bytes will.
>
> Greg
