Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS)

[Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>]

Fao, Sean wrote:

> Amit Gud wrote:
>
>> It cannot be denied that there _are_ applications for such a system 
>> that we already discussed and theres a class of users who will find 
>> the system useful.
>
>
>
> I personally see no use whatsoever. Why not just allocate 100% of the 
> file system to everybody and ignore quota's, entirely?  Each user will 
> use whatever he/she requires and when space starts to run out, users 
> will manually clean up what they don't need.
>
We should get our basics right first. We _do_ need quotas!! Without any 
quota system how are we going to avoid a malicious user  from taking 
away all the space to keep other people starving? In EQFS also this can 
happen, but we are giving *controlled flexibility* to the user. He is 
having some stretching power but not beyond a certain limit. And do you 
think users are sincere enough to clean up there files when they are done?

> I am totally against the automatic deletion of files and believe that 
> all users will _eventually_ walk in on a Monday morning to find out 
> that the OS took it upon itself to delete a file that was flagged as 
> elastic, that shouldn't have been.  

User is the king, he decides what files should be elastic and what not. 
This can always be controlled.


AG