The (inevitable?) consequence of deletion policies that typically delete based on mtime, tend to be users putting touch scripts in cron, making the metadata ser

The (inevitable?) consequence of deletion policies that typically delete based on mtime, tend to be users putting touch scripts in cron, making the metadata servers even more of a bottleneck than they already are. Been there, done that. Perhaps the solution is some netflix-like chaos monkey that randomly deletes files..;) Or for each user over its soft quota, delete the oldest files until under the quota. Or something like that..