Re: Use of IFS

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 13:11, pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> OK. Dumb question. Is there a particular reason that you don't want to 
> just email the reports to the users rather than clogging up your disk with 
> reports that may never be reviewed? 

As a general answer, there is at least one good reason to not e-mail
reports willy-nilly.   Say I've got a 500 page report, and I have 100
users that want to see it.  If I email it, I just e-mailed 50,000 pages.

For large reports, I would rather store them once on the server, and
e-mail a link to the report to the 100 users.  If all 100 view the
report, then I've sent the 50,000 pages anyway.  If only 10 view the
report (more likely it seems), I've got a real bandwidth savings.

Now the only trouble is to decide how long to archive the report.  If
it's transient data, I can probably reclaim the disk space in a few
days.  If it needs to be kept around for a few weeks, perhaps the IFS is
ok.  If it needs to be kept around for quite awhile (months/years), I
should move it from the IFS to some kind of a COLD system.

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Regards,
Rich

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