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Re: default quota limits in linux (via quotactl())
- To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
- Subject: Re: default quota limits in linux (via quotactl())
- From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:46:19 +0100
- Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>, "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@metzemix.de>, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, viro@math.psu.edu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au, Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jfs-discussion@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:40:14AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 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?
While all the 1 milion users actualy ever LOG IN that site?
And... do they ever log into that site AT THE SAME MOMENT?
> surely the argument for a default here isn't a terrible one?
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>