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n4r9 | on: Running out of disk space in production
Surely there are pitfalls either way. A ballast file can be deleted too readily, or someone could forget to re-add it.
dspillett | parent
Yep. That is why doing both can be beneficial. Alerts are more proactive if acted upon, but often too easy to ignore meaning ballast is more fail-safe in that respect.