On 11/12/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
At the worst backups should require twice as much space as the images themselves. If Wikimedia's backups require much more Brion is doing something really really wrong.
Note that I didn't even say hard drive space was cheap. I just said it's cheaper than education.
*sigh*. If only things were ever that simple.
Simply having 2x disks in the same chassis isn't a backup, and the total costs for all complex things are non-linear.
More importantly: categorization, verification, search, etc are not cheap. Nor is the time of the users we serve. We'd do a great disservice by allowing commons to become a disordered dumping ground.
You contradict yourself. Being a disordered dumping ground doesn't require categorization, verification, or search.
No I don't. I suspect you've been confused by my befuddled English.
The avoidance of being a disordered dumping ground requires non-trivial *per image* work for categorization, verification, etc. "Upload all your trash" doesn't scale and will ensure that we are never able to become well ordered... which is an outcome which would diminish our value to the public.