12 Nov
1997
12 Nov
'97
11:43 p.m.
David Schairer penned:
The effects of soft quotas are relatively easy to implement.
Assuming one has hard quotas available.
We've got a system with many thousands of 'soft' quotas running off of netapps servers. Remember that with the 'quota report' command, you can find the level of usage in real time for any quota ID. You can put a wrapper around this to check a quota very rapidly -- not rapidly enough to plug directly into realtime applications, but fast enough for use in, say, a .login message.
However, if one's site's policy is to allow users as much disk space as they need temporarily, in which case hard quotas are not set, this does not work.
Regards,
David K. Drum david@more.net
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