[Developers] disk space usage reporting

[Steve White]

Let me just toss this idea out:

We have a lot of disk space trouble.  It often disturbs users' otherwise
professional demeanor, and taints their otherwise collaborative atmosphere.

The usual remedies proposed, "get a bigger mass storage device" and
"stop being an asshole", have so far met with limited success.

Could Cactus help?

I have in mind:  if Cactus could calculate and sum up how much data it
writes in each iteration (and perhaps compare that to remaining storage
space, and estimate how quickly it will fill it), then our (really very
polite and cooperative) users could more easily predict when they are
about to put their elbow in their collegue's tea.

It seems to me that small alterations in the IO utilities could perform
the collection of file sizes.  As to how the rest would work, it would
require consideration and discussion.

And I'm not proposing to do this myself.

-- 
Steve White : Programmer
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik      Albert-Einstein-Institut
Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm, Germany                  +49-331-567-7625