[Toolserver-l] user-store

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm currently copying user-store to a new disk array; this should be finished in a couple of days. I hope the new array will be faster, as well as much larger. There will be a separate maintenance notice for the actual switch later. Once the move is done, in additional to having more storage now (about 14TB), it will be much easier to add additional storage in the future. However, I don't think having a single 14+ TB filesystem is a good idea (the initial volume will be 5TB), so I'm considering new ways to split up the storage. The most obvious is to have one volume for miscellaneous files, like the current user-store, and then one volume per large project: stats, dumps, etc. People (or MMTs) who wanted additional storage for their project could request a new volume of a particular size. As well as making it easier for us to account for space, this would mean you were guaranteed to get the amount of storage you asked for, unlike the current situation where the filesystem can (and does) fill up. Does this seem like something that would be useful to users? Otherwise, does anyone have another suggestions for how to allocate the space? - river.