If you have files on PAWS, please see below.
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andrew Bogott via Cloud-announce <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 9:52 AM Subject: [Cloud-announce] PAWS file cleanup To: <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> tl;dr: we are about to delete a whole lot of files on PAWS. Please reach out /quickly/ if you have unusually large storage needs in paws or if you find important things missing. -- Due to an increase in inappropriate and/or abusive uses, we are setting up more aggressive scanning and clearing of the NFS storage that underlies PAWS notebooks. This will be largely automated and will be a fairly blunt instrument; ideally we will only erase files associated with invalid uses but there are likely to be some false positives so I'm hoping to get user feedback when we overstep. In order to free up working space I'm going to need to delete some large files right now. Going forward, files will be moved into purgatory for a couple of weeks before deletion, so if you find important data missing it can likely be recovered if you contact us right away. Either look for an admin on IRC or follow up on this phab task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327936 This is all briefly documented at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS/Getting_started_with_PAWS#Usage_and_Storage_limits _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- [email protected] List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
