[FFmpeg-devel] incoming clean up and diskspace (was: Re: Roundup being migrated)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:53:03PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:54:38 +0100
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Ivo already set out to sort the files, but quite a few demands
> > > were directed to him because "it wasn't as nice and random
> > > as before". Hence he got distraced and delayed.
> > 
> > well
> > how exactly does ivos work free up disk space?
> 
> When the files are sorted out in a reasonable way
> and there is still not enough free space, i'll add
> more of the unallocated diskspace to that partition
> as needed.

but where is the relation?
the sorting wont free any space up and it may or may not help
humans in freeing space up this isnt clear ...

the only relation i see is that you will give more space if the
sorting happens but not if it does not, what am i missing?


> 
> [Ivos work and how unsatisfactory it is]
> 
> Well, how about helping him? How about doing it yourself?

I dont have the time nor will to do it manually and it seems ivo
also overestimated the amount he could spend on it ...

I could write a script that automates it but someone would have to
review it for security issues also it would have to run some tool
like ffmpeg or mplayer on each uploaded file to identify filetype
and codectypes, you know running any tool with user provide data is
a security issue, so id like to hear first if this is ok or not before
i or someone else spends time writing such script ...

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