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

["Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@metzemix.de>]

At 16:22 27.01.2003 +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>That's a user-space problem.  A new user typically won't have a writable
>area within /home until the sysadmin has created the new home directory,
>so it's really up to the sysadmin to make sure that the quota for the
>home filesystem has been set at the same time.

What is if we have 500.000 users and 300.000 group in LDAP

and set up a new server, witch is intended to store data from ~1000 users 
500 group

should the admin really run setquota ... for each of the 500.000 users and 
300.000 group

that's are 800.000 quota entries in the filesystem and only 1500 are really 
used

ans this entries cost disk space too, so if we have two default entries 
(one for users and one for groups) then only every user witch really uses 
this filesystem would get a quota entry when he starts to own diskspace on 
this filesystem and we would have only 1502 quota entries stored on disk!



metze
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