[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:57:08 -0400 (EDT)
"jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> > > 16TB on one computer is very difficult.  
> 
> Actually I thought I was more than strange carrying around 4TB on my
> laptop, since laptops can be stolen,lost, etc.

I could easily get by with 2TB on my *laptop*. It's my *main desktop* I
need the big storage on.

You mentioned data you need every 10 years. That's the whole point. A
lot of my use for a computer is as the world's largest filing cabinet,
and it's a magical filing cabinet that can go down 10 levels of
hierarchy and can be magically searched relatively quickly.

Now that we have bind mounts I don't need as much extra size as before,
because I can have a huge but fixed size filing cabinet with infinitely
growable file folders, so I only need to do the "this partition is ok
now, but what about 2 years from now, better make it bigger"
calculation once rather than several times cumulatively.

SteveT

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