Re: default quota limits in linux (via quotactl())

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:32:50AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:

> It still isn't a kernel problem, but a user-space one. You need to
> get or write a PAM module, that will check wether quotas are set for
> user being authenticated and if not, set them. You could even store
> the qutoas in the LDAP (or some other) database and check them when
> a user logs in...

consider 1 million users where only a small percentage of them will
ever write to the fs ... why even store 1 million quota values
needlessly at all?

surely the argument for a default here isn't a terrible one?



  --cw