Hi folks, I just want to point out that this trash mechanism in Gnome was a huge problem for large multi-user systems, because it was constantly polling users' home directories in order to update status of the trash bin (e.g. what if somebody does an "rm" directly from a shell - the GUI needs to update). This doesn't scale well.
AFAIK OpenSolaris is *not* intended to exclusively target single-user systems like laptops. Although unfortunately we do have a number of impediments to larger systems at the moment we are working on overcoming those, and the single-user system model should be viewed only as a first step and absolutely not as a goal for the OpenSolaris desktop or system software. We are currently working on migrating our Thin Client software to OpenSolaris, which will certainly require large multi-user support so let's please keep multi-user use in our plans as we go forward. -Bob Eugene Turkulevich wrote: > Hi niall, > > yes, you're right, when we think in terms of big servers with large amount of > data storages, a lot of users and a lot of network mounts the only one way to > make it work is to use very simple mechanism as you describe: assume that > user have enough free space in home directory and copy all deleted files > there. > > But! OpenSolaris become available on the usual computers too, now it can be > used on home desktop system or even on notebooks (as I know, Toshiba will > sell some of their notebooks with OpenSolaris preinstalled), so, it's time to > think about limitations of desktop systems: not a lot of users, usually no > constant mounts, but limited disk space. > > For example, my first installation of OpenSolaris was made on 10Gb partition > (for rpool, so this is for entire system and user homes) with 300Gb of > storage for all other stuff (including download location). And my first > experience was deleting of several 1-2Gb files downloaded via Transmission, > which was finished with 'pool usage is more then 80%, all automatic snapshots > were deleted' (before I stop copying this 15Gb to home located trash folder > with 10Gb for entire partition). I even reported a bug for Transmission, but > together with developer we decide 'same as Nautilus' and close it. > > BTW, snapshots is not a god idea in this situation too: when user try to > reduce disk space usage, found a 10-20-30Gb of files to be deleted, and even > delete it, the only one way to free disk space is manually delete every > snapshot made with this files. > > That's why I propose to start thinking in terms of usual user, not as system > administrator of server with unlimited disk resources :) >
