From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 19051823 for ; Thu, 30 May 2019 15:06:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 908A09B7FC; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:06:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293C79B7FB; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:06:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5AC8B9B7FB; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:06:26 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 377 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:06:24 AEST Received: from vm6.ganeti.dyne.org (vm6.ganeti.dyne.org [195.169.149.119]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D06A9B6B2 for ; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:06:24 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: katolaz@freaknet.org) with ESMTPSA id 56876F60C1F Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 17:00:42 +0200 From: KatolaZ To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Message-ID: <20190530150018.fzz5c63cbxztywvd@katolaz.homeunix.net> References: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="u7lvoc6kxljfvzbl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --u7lvoc6kxljfvzbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:49:05AM -0700, David wrote: > I think it was BSD 4.1 that added quotas to the disk system, and I was ju= st wondering if anyone ever used them, in academia or industry. As a user a= nd an admin I never used this and, while I thought it was interesting, just= figured that the users would sort it out amongst themselves. Which they mo= stly did. >=20 > So, anyone ever use this feature? >=20 As others have said already, disk (or better, filesystem) quotas have been used widely in any environment with more than a few users. I remember a 5MB quota at uni when I was an undergrad, and I definitely remember when it was increased to 10MB :) Filesystem quotas are currently used extensively in large computing facilities (clusters and distributed computing systems of different sort), and in virtually all pubnix systems (we have been using it for "medialab" at freaknet for more than 20 years now...). Over the years I have learnt that if unix has something that I think is useless, then almost surely I have not bumped into the use case, and the use case is normally important enough to explain why that feature was made part of unix ;) My2Cents KatolaZ --=20 [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] =20 [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ]=20 [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] --u7lvoc6kxljfvzbl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQSOWdaqRF79tKFTPVpfILOuC18GLwUCXO/wGgAKCRBfILOuC18G L0/YAJ9LRU2Go2N70iI7iZSnBTJ1aFAYNACfVKy7xblxdd6qkGEm76NP6vp8oSs= =eVcm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u7lvoc6kxljfvzbl--