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Lets say each byte is encoded in 10 bits on the disk.

There are three million lines of code in the disk firmware.

But what about when you write to the disk, the disk replies "Yeah sure boss!

In short, because the Milky Way disk sets a preferred rest frame.

> Shouldnt you be able to restrict how much disk space is being used?

It eventually filled up the entire disk and bad things happened.

One disk was soaked from a fire sprinkler system in a small business' office.

It turns out, we know that you are low on disk space, and will reduce our usage accordingly.

For example, when you create a sparse virtual disk and it appears to be XGB all zeroed and ready to use.

You're quite literally comparing the speed of writing to RAM versus the speed of writing to disk.

So the disk manufacturers are stuck between the reliability of the drive and the cost of the drive.

Unfortunately, I plugged in the disk drive connector crooked, sending -12 volts into a chip on the controller board that didn't want -12 volts.

The contractor was very happy, I went as far as to make it a SCO Install disk etc, and they were able to make the install part of their build process.

Reasonably fast indexing, expressive searching tools, I could dump the data onto disk and use an in memory SQLite db at the same time, caching solved.

Compare this to reading random files entrenched in a filesystem and scattered on a disk, plus doing some more processing.> First usually freed around 200MB of memoryOut of 4GB. Wow, what an incredible improvement!

During my tenure at NetApp I got to see all sorts of really really interesting disk problems and the lengths software had to go to reliably store data on them.

I thought long and hard about various complex data structures and caching bits to disk to make portions of the problem set fit into memory, and various ways of searching the data.

And this doesn't just apply to virtual disks, such techniques are also used by operating systems when freeing pages of memory - when a page of memory is no longer being used, why zero it right away?

Professional researchers often sign agreements in their children's blood stating that their data will be stored on an encrypted disk, won't leave their laptop, and will be destroyed when the research project is completed.

Pardon me while I go write a cron entry running that command every minute so that my system can stay in good shape!> When arriving to work the first thing was to hit repair disk permissionsThis is absolutely astonishing.

What will happen with the 64-bit version if you run out of disk space, more silently discarded data?I know a lot of you may have cut your teeth on MySQL which, in its default configuration, will happily truncate your strings if they are bigger than a column.

All of these standards can be applied fairly strictly, and with much less vagueness than notability.- It's not like Wikipedia is short of disk space to store a few million extra text articles.- The argument that it would be too difficult to maintain lots of extra articles is also weak, because not every article needs to be regularly edited, and more articles on niche topics might actually attract more editors.- No, we won't end up with a page for every John Doe and his cat.