View storage maintenance for dynamic views

Encourage users to review, remove, and clean up their own views regularly. In addition, you should periodically remove unneeded shared dynamic views and clean up the private storage areas of those that are still in use.

View storage maintenance for dynamic views includes two principal tasks:

Removal of unneeded views. Views can outlive their usefulness and should be regularly considered as candidates for removal. Versioned artifacts and DOs in any view can be completely reconstructed from information stored in VOBs, although view-private files cannot. In addition to consuming storage, inactive dynamic views can have an adverse impact on build performance if they are still being searched for candidate DOs.
Removal of unneeded view-private objects. As with any other isolated work area, a view’s private storage area tends to accumulate some unneeded files: temporary files, text-editor backup files, excerpts from mail messages and source files, and so on.

Note: Snapshot views, which use the host’s native file system and do not support creation of DOs, do not require any special storage maintenance procedures.