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--- filer:everyfile [2007/02/09 11:55] – damir
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-==What means ?==
+**What means this title?**
 Good question, I think the only limit is just your immagination.
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-This file server has a high level of performance and security in order to prevent the loose or the manual deletion of one file. You don't have limitation on the the type of files you want store in your homedir. The only limitations you are subject is the complessive disk space used by your files.
-At this moment all users share the same disk space (around 900 GByte) and there's no limitation in the number or in the dimension of the files a user can store. We count on the personal attention to not overload the network and the file server.
+=== Theory ===
-Beside the disk space can appear huge, don't forget that all users of network (the one you know, but also people you never meet physically) are using the same space, so pay attention.
+The file server where all the homedir are stored has a high level of performance and security in order to prevent the loose or the manual deletion of one file. From a theoretic point of view it's better to use this file server to store every file we access and need, but after the theory start the practice and for now (I mean 201X decade) managing big files or huge amounts of small/medium files generate problems.
-Maybe you didn't noticed, but the dimension of files increase constantly. Maybe you don't know, but the high quality of the song or video you are watching in the left window just now means that the file is big. When I say big I mean **BIG**. Just imagine how many floppy disk you need to store this file and think about carry all these floppies in you backpack (not to mention the time you need to write the floppies). Networks simplified the transmission of data accross the planet, but this don't means that the work is completely disappeared, it's only hidden.
-Every night there's a backup of all the files present in our file server (currently 300 Gbytes). Transferring all these data accross the network needs time (around 50 Gbytes/hour) and we have only part of the night at our disposition (only closed and unused files can be backed up).
+=== Practical ===
+Currently you don't have limitation on the the type of files you want store in your homedir. The only limitations you are subject is the total disk space used by your files.
+At this moment all users share the same disk space (around 900 GByte) and we count on the personal attention to not overload the network and the file server. Although the disk space can appear huge, don't forget that all users of the network (the one you know, but also people you never meet physically) are using the same space, so pay attention.
+Maybe you didn't noticed, but the dimension of files increase constantly. Maybe you don't know yet, but the high quality of the song or video you are watching in the left window just now means that the file is big. When I say big I mean **BIG** in therms of bytes used to store the whole. Networks simplified the transmission of data across the planet, but this don't means that the work is light, it's only hidden and performed by something else.
+Every night there's a backup of all the files present in our file server. Transferring all these data across the network needs time (around 50 Gbytes per hour) and we have only part of the night at our disposition (only closed and unused files can be backed up). For these, and other reasons, at the moment we can backup only 600 Gbyte of the whole server and so we must limit the type of files stored there.
+<note warning>
 For the moment the system is manageable, but don't try to find the boundaries of your possibility, the space used is checked by the System Administrators and if the homedir of one or more users are out of ordinary, they'll ask the users about this.
+</note>
+=== Easier Life ===
 To reduce the space used by personal (at this moment this means: songs, videos, photos) and unuseful files follow these tips: