Google: "Only affected a small number of users."<p>This language really infers that they still don't understand why there was such a loud outcry and bad press. Even if it's just a small number of users, a company can't pull the rug on them without notice - for those small number of users there was no reasonable expectation that this would become a problem, and seemingly now it is no longer a problem.<p>Also if the number is so small: engage those users directly to find a compromise first.
I wish stupid decisions that end up quickly reversed came with post-mortem write-ups the way downtime does.<p>How could anyone think that rolling this out without warning would go smoothly?
The level of incompetence and mediocrity inside Google when it comes to managing a product ( let alone create a new one ) is astonishing.<p>Even someone running a lemonade stand knows that trust is the number one requirement when serving a customer/user, everything else comes based on that.<p>Yet, the smart people at Google seem to think otherwise.
Google keeps shooting itself in the foot with google drive, it's insane.<p>When Google Docs came out, everyone thought Microsoft was screwed. They had such a headstart in cloud-based collaboration.<p>But somehow, they managed to eff up google drive and anything offline for so long that Dropbox is still the best option for cloud storage and Microsoft had the time to rebuild its whole Office suite in javascript.
Even in paid shared web hosting services, there is an inode limit. And it was more than a decade ago since I stumbled with this issue. Since then I monitor my file count and delete those with last TOUCHed of at least 30 days even if I have moved already to a dedicated server long time ago. I was caching complex database queries to the disk and did not bother to delete the files before.<p>I wonder if there is still a limit with modern Linux OSes and that is why Google is limiting some of their users?
It is hard to imagine a more neurotic, unstable company than Google. The inmates are running the asylum and I am so, so happy to no longer be running any of their services.
If you want many small files make more inodes:<p><pre><code> sudo mkfs.ext4 -T small
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I use it for my 2000 line distributed db: <a href="http://root.rupy.se" rel="nofollow">http://root.rupy.se</a>