From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Disk Quotas (was Re: New feature for the filesystems.) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:27:58 GMT
In article <C5GyGK.34A@curia.ucc.ie>, nick@symphony.mp.ucc.ie (Nick Hilliard) writes:
| With all this talk about new features for the various filesystems, I figure
| no-one's really mentioned anything about Disk Quotas.
On a public access UNIX I sure would like that!!
|
| Ok - it's fine if you're a just using Linux as a single user machine, but if
| you have a whole load of users hanging out of it, you really _do_ need some
| form of mechanism for making sure that people don't hog the machine.
Less hassle than sending the boys in the black limo after them, for
sure. Or even cleaning up their files and sending them a nastygram.
|
| Is there a chance of seeing code for them being written in the (near)
| future?
A related question, the V.4 (ufs) filesystem doesn't by default
reserve a lot of room for root only. The 10% reserve to prevent
quadradic behavior (slowdown) and fragmentation is not there. Neither
are the slowdown or fragmentation. And you get 32 bit inodes, so you
don't run out of inodes all the time.
Sure would be nice to have this functionality on Linux.
-- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345