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On 07/26/2011 03:20 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> We need to deal with out of disk space better than we do now. We should have
> two limits:
> Lower limit: If we have less than this amount, Freenet shuts everything down,
> and tells the user to free up some disk space.
> Upper limit: If we have less than this amount, Freenet attempts to free some
> up via e.g. defragging the persistent-temp blob files more enthusiastically.
>
> If the computer we are installing on has a relatively small amount of space
> (e.g. within a factor of 2 of the default upper limit), we should ask the
> user for the thresholds. But we need some sane defaults. What is sane?
> 5GB/1GB? 1GB/0.5GB? This may be different for different operating systems
> (Windows/Linux/Mac) ...
>
> Also, long term, it may be possible to use multiple datastores to
> automatically adjust our disk usage. In which case two new policies are
> possible:
> - Use X% of my available disk space (probably with a lower limit).
> - Ensure that X GB are available for my files at all times.
Won't it be completely useless on any file system which also has the reserved
space parameter? You may have 50G free on the 1T filesystem, but if 5% is the
reserved space, that means that you are out of disk space for everybody but the
root (and some other predefined) users.
- Volodya
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