On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 11:47:42AM -0600, sirbruce@ix.netcom.com had written:
On 11/12/97 09:36:10 you wrote:
CIFS is new to the NetApp boxen and it seems to work pretty well, but NFS was your first baby and you have not done anything yet to help us in this world who need one item - soft quotas.
There may be some confusion as to *exactly* what you mean by soft quotas, and how they work. Someone once asked me that the next time someone mentioned this, to ask them to PLEASE explain what you expect the soft quotas to do, how they work, and how they currently work on your other (say, Sun) machines.
I have answered this question many times, and I am sick of it.
Go onto your own SunOS or Solaris system and try it yourself, soft quotas have been around for a very long time and so far, I have not heard a single technical reason why it should not work.
FreeBSD does it, shoddy Linux does it, hell, I can't name a unix system off the top of my head that doesn't.
Is it so much to ask?
I have been asking this question since late 1994 of my local sales rep, and I have talked with NetApp engineers.