Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site unmvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl-a!unm-cvax!unmvax!lee From: lee@unmvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.wanted Subject: Re: Re: 4.2 BSD Disk Quotas -- What are your experiences with it? Message-ID: <452@unmvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 23:09:18 EDT Article-I.D.: unmvax.452 Posted: Sun Sep 30 23:09:18 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 07:27:24 EDT References: <367@felix.UUCP> <4955@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 16 > The quota stuff works great. It slows down your booting process > to check quotas (we have Gigabytes of disk) and when the whole > filesystem fills up the operating system nicely crashes to keep > it from getting any worse. > > Good luck (you'll need it).. We never crashed when our file-system filled... It is slower at boot. It confuses the *hell* out of the users. It gets bitched about alot, "But I absolutely, *must* have a Gig; please increase my quota." If (when.. please oh please) we get another disk they go out the door (for awhile at least) here. -- --Lee (Ward) {ucbvax,convex,gatech,pur-ee}!unmvax!lee