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Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston's 'happy dance' animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to security policy

Tom's Hardware·https://www.tomshardware.com/author/mark-tyson·about 2 months ago
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(Image credit: Getty / NBC) A single tiny GIF, frequently used in chats by a site's community members, ended up adding 377GB to the website's backup quota, breaking its Linux filesystem and causing the backup process to fail. The Jennifer Aniston ‘happy dance’ reaction GIF weighs in at 1.6MB, and in the headlining case, it was duplicated 246,173 times in the backup, writes Discourse tech blogger Jake Goldsborough. This problem was precipitated by, dare we say, an overuse of the happy dance GIF, plus a file security policy implementation. Fixing it wasn’t entirely straightforward. A GIF of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance was duplicated 246,173 times on one Discourse site.…

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