On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 15:07:58 Walter Bright wrote: > Bruno Medeiros wrote: > > A more serious issue that I learned (or rather forgotten about before > > and remembered now) is the whole DVCSes keep the whole repository > > history locally aspect, which has important ramifications. If the > > repository is big, although disk space may not be much of an issue, > > I still find myself worrying about disk usage, despite being able to get a > 2T drive these days for under a hundred bucks. Old patterns of thought die > hard.
And some things will likely _always_ make disk usage a concern. Video would be a good example. If you have much video, even with good compression, it's going to take up a lot of space. Granted, there are _lots_ of use cases which just don't take up enough disk space to matter anymore, but you can _always_ find ways to use up disk space. Entertainingly, a fellow I know had a friend who joked that he could always hold all of his data in a shoebox. Originally, it was punch cards. Then it was 5 1/4" floppy disks. Then it was 3 1/2" floppy disks. Then it was CDs. Etc. Storage devices keep getting bigger and bigger, but we keep finding ways to fill them... - Jonathan M Davis