On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 11:49 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:43:10 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard said: > > > For an archive service how about only accepting files in actual > > "archive" formats and then severely restricting the number of files a > > user can have? > > > > By archive files I am thinking like a .zip, tar.gz, tar.bz or similar. > > After having dealt with users who fill up disk storage for almost 4 decades > now, I'm fully aware of those advantages. :) > > ( /me ponders when an IBM 2314 disk pack with 27M of space was "a lot" in > 1978, > and when we moved 2 IBM mainframes in 1989, 400G took 2,500+ square feet, and > now 8T drives are all over the place...) > > On the flip side, my current project is migrating 5 petabytes of data from our > old archive system that didn't have such rules (mostly due to politics and the > fact that the underlying XFS filesystem uses a 4K blocksize so it wasn't as > big > an issue), so I'm stuck with what people put in there years ago.
I would be tempted to zip up the directories and move them ziped ;-) JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom. _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
