From: sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins) Subject: Re: Disk Quotas (was Re: New feature for the filesystems.) Date: 16 Apr 1993 00:40:35 GMT
In article <C5IyMG.CG4@crdnns.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill 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.
Right... every quota system I have ever seen truncates the file so that
it will *not* exceed the hard quota...
Scott
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