[Babase] Question about file upload
Catherine Markham
amarkham at princeton.edu
Wed Mar 18 12:14:57 EDT 2009
Sounds great to me. I'll hold off on trying to upload the large files
until I hear more either from Karl or Ryan that things are officially
ready (at least for a "test run").
Thanks so much for the quick replies,
Catherine
Jeanne Altmann wrote:
> This is all helpful.
> Yes, we do need Catherine to put this data up for this project. Let's
> keep the dialog and information flowing about space, so we do allotments
> and make space as well as partitioning decisions appropriately.
> jeanne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Karl O.
> Pinc
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:06 PM
> To: The Baboon Database Project
> Cc: Ryan Hardy
> Subject: Re: [Babase] Question about file upload
>
>
> On 03/17/2009 10:41:44 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>
>> I have some files that seem just massive and aren't uploading (though
>
>> I can upload smaller versions of them), which leaves me a bit stuck.
>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> I see no reason why you couldn't put 15GB of stuff on the server.
> Especially because the bulk of it is temporary.
> However, there's not space for a whole lot more than that at the moment.
> If we're looking at buying disk drives
> anyway maybe we want more space? (Ryan: More spindles
> are always good, to a point. :-)
>
> I tried setting the maximum upload size to 5G just to see what would
> happen but can't until Ryan does some more fixing after this weekend's
> breakage.
> Regardless you won't be able to upload more than either 1.8G or twice
> that because that's all the free space we have in /tmp.
>
> Ryan will need to give us more space on our root partition if we want to
> support larger uploads.
>
> Jeanne/Susan: We will want _some_ policy about how much space people can
> use. But this is a people question just to keep things "fair", not a
> technical question so long as we've hardware resources available.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
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