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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Strigidaemon
From: Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev () emailgoeshere ! com>
Date: 2008-04-02 14:34:48
Message-ID: 47F39988.7060800 () emailgoeshere ! com
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Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
>> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 21:35:54 David Johnson wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 08:55:28 am John Tapsell wrote:
>>>> So we need sensible defaults. How about using up to 5% of disk
>>>> space, and then asking the user whether to go above 5%? That
>>>> way the user is asked if the index becomes 'unreasonable'
>>>> large, but isn't bothered by popups when first using kde.
>>> IMO, leaving 5% is not sensible. The Windows/Linux standard of
>>> using one large 500Gb partition is common, but hardly
>>> ubiquitious. Leaving me only 5% on my 2Gb home partition is
>>> unreasonable. There are many use cases where temporary disk usage
>>> may need more than 5% of a partition. Building software is a good
>>> example.
>> I read it as using 5%, not leaving 5%. Which I think is perfectly
>> reasonable, as long as Chani's comment about what to do if there's
>> only, say, 3% of the disk space left is taken into account.
>
> Think of thin client installations as well where, say, 20 users share
> one /home partition. 5% per user would then use the whole partition.
> *Not* that I have a better answer.
I believe in that setup the users would generally have a quota, in which
case 5% of their quota could work...
--Jeff
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