Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I only read the trash spec now (and implemented
>>> http://www.scratchpost.org/hacks/trasher/ :)). I see that the trash
>>> directory name uses the user ID instead of the name. baaad.
>>>
>> Using the name would be even worse... But before this discussion becomes
>> totally off-topic, imagine a simple use case: You have a private website
>> were you upload stuff via FTP, and your quota is 5MB. Now you reached
>> 4.9MB and want to delete some stuff. So deleting 20 images, up to
>> 500KiB, but your total size is still 4.9MB!? How many people would look
>> into the trash now?
>>
>
> They'd probably learn to look into the trash after the first
> time that happens.
>
This actually happens to us at uni - we have a 15MB limit on our home
directories. It takes new users (I mean windows users who are using a
linux system for the first time) a few minutes to work out that they
need to empty the trash too.
> The actual problem is that users don't expect the trash to be cleared
> automagically (as a real-world trash would be).
> If they would, I'd do:
> if no space available on filesystem for new file A, clear oldest trash
> entries until there is.
>
> :)
>
> But that will inevitable lead to "You bastard! You emptied my trash! I had
> life-important documents in there" ;)
>
If you set the trash to a particular size, 100MB (customizable by the
user) so that when a file is deleted that would make it 110MB the oldest
file in trash is removed. This could be a setting: "Space-Restricted
Trash" with a "Traditional Trash" mode also available. The first time
this happens the user should be informed and given the option of
changing to the traditional mode perhaps?
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