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Re: /svn/athena r23449 - trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Feb 5 14:32:20 2009
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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:31:24 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
CC: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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It was discussed in ATN-9 on Jira.
Greg Price wrote:
> Shrug. This change will look silly when the starting quota is 10G in
> n years. As it is I'd already feel pretty uncomfortable when I've
> filled nearly 3G of space and have just 100M left, and would rather be
> warned sooner. But I don't care enough about this to pursue it farther.
>
> Greg
>
>
> PS - It's not in the release-team minutes, so there's no way I would
> have known you'd discussed it.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:39:39PM -0500, William Cattey wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
