[Haifux] SVN quota

[Ohad Lutzky]

If anything, make the quota soft, with no hard quota - and set up mails to
be sent when the quota is reached - just to be aware that something is going
on.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Shahar Dag <dag at cs.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> Hello
>
> As I already said, setting quota on an SVN project is more a meter of
> awareness, then a real disk space limitation.
>
> The idea of using the pre-commit hock to limit the size of a commit is very
> interesting.
> Quick google came with several sites:
> http://www.davidgrant.ca/limit_size_of_subversion_commits_with_this_hook
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-09/0928.shtml
> I also found this, but I totally don't understand it
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-svnadmin/2008-November/000009.html
>
> I don't have time now to dig into the suggestions. I will update the list
> after I will have a working hock
>
> Shahar
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>
> To: "Shahar Dag" <dag at cs.technion.ac.il>
> Cc: "Haifaux" <haifux at haifux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Haifux] SVN quota
>
>
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010, Shahar Dag wrote about "Re: [Haifux] SVN  quota":
> >> It is true that users can't delete data from the SVN.
> >> The only thing users can do is ask for additional quota. If they know
> >> that they are running out of quota in advanced, they can ask to enlarge
> >> the quota before they are out of disk space (which usually happens
> >> 01:00 ).
> >> Then I can check if the disk space usage is justify and respond on time.
> >
> > Shachar Shemesh made a very good point. There's very little point in a
> > quota system if the person who is reaching the end of his quota can't
> > do anything about it to clean up his act. If the only thing he can do is
> > to
> > ask you to increase his quota (and you never refuse), why have a quota in
> > the
> > first place - to make people feel bad about taking up space? To add
> > beaurocracy?
> >
> > I have several years experience with using and administering SVN
> > repositories,
> > and my experience is that problems with repository sizes always stem from
> > one
> > issue: that somebody, usually mistakenly or due to lack of understanding
> > of
> > what SVN is supposed to do, did one huge commit. E.g., somebody added
> some
> > huge test data or outputs to the repository, which they shouldn't have
> > done in the first place. Once the user added a huge commit, Subversion
> > doesn't
> > give you any (convenient) facility to remove this commit, or the huge
> > files
> > in it, from the history. You can get mails that you are close to your
> > quota
> > until hell freezes over - and there's nothing you can do about it but say
> > "I'm sorry"...
> >
> > If you must have SVN quotas, one thing I'd try first is to try to enforce
> > first some sort of limit the size of a single commit. For example, if you
> > give people a 100 MB quota for the repository, limit a single commit size
> > to 30 MB; If somebody fills up more than 30% of his quota in a single
> > commit - something is probably wrong. If you let him do it, he'll
> probably
> > be sorry later because he'll not have enough space to continue using his
> > repository. Of course, you can play with this 30% number. Perhaps enforce
> > this single-commit-quota just after 50% of the total quota is finished -
> > or come with whatever policy makes sense for you. Also, you'll need to
> > figure out how to enforce this policy :-) (some sort of commmit hook
> might
> > work, but I really didn't try to implement this idea).
> >
> > Nadav.
> >
> > --
> > Nadav Har'El                        |     Thursday, Jan 21 2010, 6 Shevat
> > 5770
> > nyh at math.technion.ac.il
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> >
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