It makes quite a bit of sense.
Say, for example, that 100 images are deleted daily from Wikimedia projects. If they are erased permanently, that would mean we saved at least a little bit of space, as opposed to keeping them around forever.
I don't know if we ever erased them permanently, though, and I also don't know with wham frequency images are deleted, and I'm also pretty sure disco space was never a real problem.
Mark
On 17/06/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/06/06, Tomer Chachamu the.r3m0t@gmail.com wrote:
/me thought image deletions were permanent for disk-space reasons.
Why the hell does everybody seem to have thought that? There was never, as far as I am aware, any policy related to saving disk space that would cause that. It's simply that there was a lack of code until now. :)
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