[Sugar-devel] [Systems] Tidying up; images from 2010 to 2012

Anmol Mishra anmolmishra.jiit at gmail.com
Sat Dec 8 09:15:26 EST 2018


I would like to ask If these images are from 2010-2012, why weren't they
deleted earlier?
I'm asking this to get the resistance factors that were imposed earlier on
deletion in maybe 2016-current.

On Sat, 8 Dec, 2018, 10:33 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org wrote:

> Yes.
>
> Harms are misdirection of users and filesystem size.
>
> Further subdividing;
>
> - on the misdirection, the images have bugs that have been fixed, such
>   as since mitigated zero-day vulnerabilities.
>
> - on the size, they increased time cost of backups or filesystem
>   maintenance on the servers.
>
> What are the gains in keeping these files?
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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