> 1) It's not intended to be a Real Solution(tm). It's intended to buy the admin some time to solve the Real Issue. It doesn't do that though. If you don't hav

> 1) It's not intended to be a Real Solution(tm). It's intended to buy the admin some time to solve the Real Issue. It doesn't do that though. If you don't have monitoring/alerting that can either a) give you sufficient notice that you're trending out of disk space, b) take action on its own (e.g. defensively shutting down the machine), or c) both of the above, then having your server disks fill up is bad whether you have a ballast file or not. If your database server goes to 100%, you can't trust your database anymore whether you could ssh in and delete an 8GB file or not. That's it.