From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: Disk Quotas (was Re: New feature for the filesystems.) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 16:23:32 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux: 14-Apr-93 Disk Quotas (was Re: New
fe.. Nick Hilliard@symphony.m (767)
Hi,
>With all this talk about new features for the various filesystems, I figure
>no-one's really mentioned anything about Disk Quotas.
>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.
>Is there a chance of seeing code for them being written in the (near)
>future?
>Nick
I agree whole-heartedly, such a feature is desperately needed if Linux
is to be more than a single-user OS (ala DOS). We don't want people to
switch to 386BSD, now do we? The thing that bothers me, is that someone
did write a quota patch, but it is out of date, and won't fit any newer
kernels. (without hacking on it). :(
(This is *not* a flame of Linux. It is a very good OS, it is much better
than DOS, but if it is missing a feature someone critically needs, they
simply can't use it, and that's a shame. I am afraid to do any major
work, as others may be, to improve Linux, for fear that one's work won't
make it into the kernel, and will thus break in a couple of months and
have to be redone, abandoned, or updated (or the person will have to
install the patch, then all the official patched till one reaches the
current patchlevel, and hope it still works/patches cleanly, etc.)