Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:00PM
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Partly that, partly the opposite.
It's basically reserving part of the disk for very important things only, which scares off less important uses. Like making the commons seem more polluted than it actually is to get some action taken.
If those files weren't there, the space would probably fill up, but now without any emergency relief valves.
It would be better if these files were a smaller fraction of space and had more oversight... but that's just a quota system. This is something halfway in between real quotas and full-on tragedy of the commons.
It's basically reserving part of the disk for very important things only, which scares off less important uses. Like making the commons seem more polluted than it actually is to get some action taken.
If those files weren't there, the space would probably fill up, but now without any emergency relief valves.
It would be better if these files were a smaller fraction of space and had more oversight... but that's just a quota system. This is something halfway in between real quotas and full-on tragedy of the commons.