From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 17:37:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190531003734.GA12897@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1559262062.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:21:02PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Several list members report having used, or suffered under, filesystem
> quotas.
>
> At the University Utah, in the College of Science, and later, the
> Department of Mathematics, we have always had an opposing view:
>
> Disk quotas are magic meaningless numbers imposed by some bozo
> ignorant system administrator in order to prevent users from
> getting their work done.
>
> Thus, in my 41 years of systems management at Utah, we have not had a
> SINGLE SYSTEM with user disk quotas enabled.
I can see both sides of this, but man, do I love the attitude of just
get out of their way and let them do their work. I get the reasons
that other people did disk quotas, it's reasonable, but I like Nelson's
approach better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-31 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-31 0:21 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 0:37 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-05-31 0:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-05-31 15:05 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 16:06 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-31 16:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 16:38 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-31 15:55 ` Rico Pajarola
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-30 16:04 Noel Chiappa
2019-05-30 16:48 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:42 ` ron
2019-05-30 13:49 David
2019-05-30 14:23 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2019-05-30 14:26 ` Dan Cross
2019-05-30 14:27 ` Rico Pajarola
2019-05-31 7:16 ` George Ross
2019-05-30 14:29 ` Robert Brockway
2019-05-30 14:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-05-30 14:48 ` John P. Linderman
2019-05-30 14:57 ` Jim Geist
2019-05-30 14:55 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2019-05-30 15:00 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:28 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-30 19:19 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-30 20:42 ` Warner Losh
2019-05-30 22:23 ` George Michaelson
2019-05-31 1:36 ` alan
2019-05-31 19:07 ` Pete Wright
2019-05-31 20:43 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 20:59 ` Pete Wright
2019-06-01 0:30 ` reed
2019-06-04 13:50 ` Tony Finch
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