-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-11-14 04:03, Salmiakki wrote: > On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 10:31:25 AM UTC+1, Robert Mittendorf wrote: >> On 2016-11-11 14:58, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >>> >>>>> Actually I don't think it is a good idea. File copy protocol is >>>>> intentionally very simple, including being unidirectional. We don't >>> want >>>>> to add any non-essential features there, to keep it as simple as >>>>> possible. >>> >>>> BTW None of file copying tools I know do that (cp, rsync, scp, ...). >> Well, I somewhat understand the first argument, but not the second. To >> have a bad usability and waste poeple's time just because other tools do >> is not a good argument I think. >> >> Obviously it is not unidirectional, otherwise the source would not know >> "out of disk space". This does not have to be an interactive feature, >> though. >> Why not give the "out of disk space" error before accepting the >> transfer? The communication from sink to source would be the same, but >> less time would be wasted. > > Maybe it could be done more general by just popping up a warning saying "this > VM is low on disk space". > It would not work for cases where you transfer extremely large files (or at > least it would only display the warning after transferring quite a large > chunk). > However, it would also work for everything else! > For example I once had a problem because I decided to sync my entire imap > folder for my mail VM and that is larger than 2 GB. The problem was actually > kind of hard to spot. Ideally of course, the warning would be accompanied by > an option to just extend the space (since it seems to be possible to do that > while the VM is running anyway). >
I've actually seen such a warning in 3.1 and earlier (haven't had cause to see it yet in 3.2), so it must already exist in some sense (or did exist). I never bothered to look into how the threshold is calculated, though. - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYKascAAoJENtN07w5UDAwJv0P/jiO/pGfAyIGv+eENZ35Z1GY +dR3udiEvJJvtMV3kPzaY3uOGwF72jwesjdwQo3DxgOZWpeMH5JzJQdHvx1WXoqp dmpAJJ8VV0tI2JErI6gpxjKo47oIlog1g83u0p6iRksYE7wtqj4+4jsCsZiXO/B3 hsCFBV0f4UhlRPeBr9G23CJ93vn5sgcBvgnvN1whQRCBMZgVRATakmsmkpio0yIH YbuqGjp35zZZyOGL4ZOybzxEPWiBoZPB+wXDHr1YLQGEhMaZfnKtPgt2HHu39WL/ nw8qotIjUaD3/bFOHncc90yIfpnQZKZaBwxk+hdW+1Rnecv/NiN4l33O+MiPNiRW wrab84LMvoYJal9J35nVQrxAd+Hmpi/G96Lkr1TQTbnhsIA40+LkGLAxK4Gl9Gl/ 8h+irOcYW+z7AQ76XqiRt/GLNGNhSVbPBj1MAfo48PUo9og31FizlDnoumQdrUYc eAkZ/pjkcbsB2L73jrjYajHahIUkTbXmrUlZAU5mkjjCIjEJ7S7EzngGkSKayN4E xvZzYZygOydXVcYCFWOewkhphpIUTPcihaXZZGfRKTpYivm7/6I9/0HX3eGl1JGQ qNAIBaaLm/n8JYa5+3ADHZONLl+HHKZj2arWrmbNKQac5iCnpUMEZ69w04dbIYzy nLrYKL4b+LA/hZrB6pt8 =MNnR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/7027bb1c-4e40-331e-2db6-bbeb012ab670%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
