12 Nov
1997
12 Nov
'97
8:56 p.m.
Amy Chused penned:
My understanding of soft quotas is that, say, you give a user a soft quota of 20 MB and a hard quota of 50 MB. If they are over their soft quota, then when they log in, and every time they try to write out a file, it succeeds, but also gives them a message saying, "You're over quota. Fix it." If they're over their hard quota, it just doesn't succeed. Does anyone else have a different impression?
That is how I understand and use it.
And how are soft quotas implemented over NFS?
There is a daemon rquotad which runs on the NFS server. At least on Suns.
Regards,
David K. Drum david@more.net
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