On 11/12/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
At the worst backups should require twice as much
space as the images
themselves. If Wikimedia's backups require much more Brion is doing
something really really wrong.
Note that I didn't even say hard drive space was cheap. I just said
it's cheaper than education.
*sigh*.
If only things were ever that simple.
Simply having 2x disks in the same chassis isn't a backup, and the
total costs for all complex things are non-linear.
More
importantly: categorization, verification, search, etc are not
cheap. Nor is the time of the users we serve. We'd do a great
disservice by allowing commons to become a disordered dumping ground.
You contradict yourself. Being a disordered dumping ground doesn't
require categorization, verification, or search.
No I don't.
I suspect you've been confused by my befuddled English.
The avoidance of being a disordered dumping ground requires
non-trivial *per image* work for categorization, verification, etc.
"Upload all your trash" doesn't scale and will ensure that we are
never able to become well ordered... which is an outcome which would
diminish our value to the public.