From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: david@kdbarto.org
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 10:26:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W7q=yBGCgZXtd5yGNJ-ggy2Li9-W1aS7whGs9iG6wHOCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org>
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On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:58 AM David <david@kdbarto.org> wrote:
> I think it was BSD 4.1 that added quotas to the disk system, and I was
> just wondering if anyone ever used them, in academia or industry. As a user
> and 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 mostly did.
>
> So, anyone ever use this feature?
>
Oh yes. I used them in multiple places; in fact, on a public access Unix
system that I still (!!) am active on (well, not really...grex.org) we use
them; mostly to try and limit the effects of abuse.
Quotas were very useful in time shared and network environments, where you
didn't quite trust all of the users. For example, university networks where
undergrads were given accounts for course work, but could be otherwise
mischievous, and you didn't want them interfering with research happening
on the same system/network.
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-30 13:49 David
2019-05-30 14:23 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2019-05-30 14:26 ` Dan Cross [this message]
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
2019-05-30 16:04 Noel Chiappa
2019-05-30 16:48 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:42 ` ron
2019-05-31 0:21 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 0:37 ` Larry McVoy
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
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