From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Hudec Subject: Re: default quota limits in linux (via quotactl()) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:46:19 +0100 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030128094619.GO28513@vagabond> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030127150905.0217e170@post.strato.de> <5.2.0.9.2.20030127150905.0217e170@post.strato.de> <5.2.0.9.2.20030128074810.0218c4f8@post.webmailer.de> <20030128093250.GM28513@vagabond> <20030128094014.GA23257@f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Hudec , "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , viro@math.psu.edu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au, Andreas Dilger , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jfs-discussion@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, Alexander Bokovoy Return-path: To: Chris Wedgwood Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030128094014.GA23257@f00f.org> Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec