Hi Alexander and *, I would like linux to handle default quota limits like NTFS 5 do it. So if a new user is added to the system and start to own disk space on a filesystem he should get the default quotas for the specified FS as his own quotas. Now a new user has unlimited disk space until root explicit sets quota limits for this user. I have searched in google to find another unix witch allready implements this feature, but I didn't find any. So I decided to add two (four) new cmd's to quotactl(), Q_SETDEFQUOTA Q_GETDEFQUOTA and for the XFS Quotas Q_XSETDEFQLIM Q_XGETDEFQUOTA this call should take the same paramter's as the Q_GETQUOTA /Q_XGETQUOTA .. cmd's but the uid/gid should be ignored here and the filesystem defaults should be get or set. I think this should be an easy task to be implemented in the filesystems witch allready support quotas. I attach a patch witch modify the quotactl system call for this. the implemetation inside the filesystems, should be done by the maintainers:-) PS: I'm currently using XFS and it would be very cool if the default quota limits could implemented very fast...:-) I hope I will get feedback :) thanks anyway... please cc me: in all replies:-) metze ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan "metze" Metzmacher <metze@metzemix.de>
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