Strigidaemon

[Jeff Mitchell]

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