If the alarm works. And it actioned not just snoozed too much or just dismissed entirely.
Defence in depth is a good idea: proper alarms, and a secondary measure in case they don't have the intended effect.
Alarms are great, but when something goes wrong SSDs can fill up amazingly fast!
Surely there are pitfalls either way. A ballast file can be deleted too readily, or someone could forget to re-add it.
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