From: william E Davidsen (davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM)
Date: 04/15/93 

From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Subject: Re: Disk Quotas (was Re: New feature for the filesystems.)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 12:27:52 GMT

In article <s_fuller.734838052@vincent2.iastate.edu>, s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller) writes:

| 1) If the file is in the middle of a write when you exceed your
| quota, the file will be written in its entirety and not
| truncated. Any furthur write requests will be denied

  I certainly don't want a quota like that. If the hard limit isn't hard
it doesn't protect the system. unless writes STOP at the hard limit the
user could run the system out of disk anyway. 

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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345