when you run out of disk space on a compute server, inform that user somehow

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when you run out of disk space on a compute server, inform that user somehow #7651

Open williamstein opened 2 days ago

williamstein commented 2 days ago

This is difficult compared to projects because:

a compute server can have many different disks attached to it
the sorts of disks quite different on google cloud versus hyperstack versus on prem
it's not clear where the warning should go or how it should be conveyed
what should the warning say?
in cases when it's pretty trivial to increase the relevant disk space, it can make that easy with "1 click". But even then, there are many possibilities.

Anyway this is complicated in general, which is perhaps why we haven't done this yet. But it'll be very valuable!

novoselt commented 1 day ago

Somewhat related - I think the disk size has to be made way more prominent among the settings and there should be and estimate of how much "free space" will be there if the main image is included into this size. Cloud Filesystems expose the bare minimum by default - the setting which are visible are absolutely essential to be aware of and adjust as needed. I think the disk size for compute servers is one of such essential pieces, especially since it affects the cost when the machine is off.

williamstein commented 1 day ago

I think the disk size has to be made way more prominent among the settings and there should be and estimate of how much "free space" will be there if the main image is included into this size.

Definitely. It should be very visible in the main compute server card, and also somewhere in the thin block at the top of a file, and you just click on it to adjust it.