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All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space (www.reuters.com)
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[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Even better, cron job every 5 mins and if total remaining space falls to 5% auto delete the file and send a message to sys admin

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Sends a message and gets the services ready for potential shutdown. Or implements a rate limit to keep the service available but degraded.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Also, if space starts decreasing much more rapidly than normal.

[–] bug@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

At that point just set the limit a few gig higher and don't have the decoy file at all