From: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) Subject: Re: Disk Quotas (was Re: New feature for the filesystems.) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 14:06:50 GMT
davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
>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.
I agree, BSD quotas are implemented in this way, a hard limit stops any further
write.
Sincerely,
Klaus
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>bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345