2010/1/30 Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de:
Basically we tripled the size of the image server a few days back.
So you are saying the bytes on the disk array are feeling lonely and need company? Sorry but you can only stretch the "space is not an issue" argument so far. See [[:commons:Template:Nopenis]], pretty much the same logic applies here ;-)
That was the answer in terms of timing. I haven't followed any debate as to why at all.