News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk. Parent comment

Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by arkh on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:58AM (#26590036)
At school we had a 800Mb quota for each class (around 90 people). Usually the first year everyone discovered the space problem when trying to get everything done for your first project. When you cannot compile code or generate pdf because there's no space left the witch hunt starts: there's always some people with left-over files from .pdf to .tex conversions.

To help some students had put in place a crawler making statistics about who was using the space for all classes. And usually once bitten you made your own space requisition script which would take any byte left when available until it hit some reasonable size.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by Out_of_Characte on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:37AM (#26591337)
That's dire, ~8Mb per person. Its an interesting problem though, When the resource is not scarce, allocating 800Mb per class is the correct way to do things. someone who needs 9, 12 or 30Mb would be able to complete the allocation. But as soon as resource contention happens, students with the biggest allocation would need to relinquish alot of data. 800Mb is nothing over a modern connection nowadays but playing this game with petabytes would be a nightmare.
[ Parent | on HN ]