sirbruce@ix.netcom.com (Bruce Sterling Woodcock) writes:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 06:46:58PM -0700, Timothy Demarest wrote:
Does DOT support soft and hard quotas? How about time limits? From everything I've searched, it looks like it only supports hard limits.
The NetAppen only support hard quotas.
The same is true of all NFS servers when serving data to remote systems. Not just Netapp.
That's simply not true. Any Unix filing system with a quota system descended from the BSD one (e.g. Solaris ufs quotas) supports soft and hard quotas, and will apply them in just the same way to file operations over NFS as to local ones.
Perhaps you meant that the asynchronous warning messages from the kernel to the logged on user when going over the soft quota won't happen if you aren't actually logged on to the server? That's true, of course, but such messages were always a bad idea, and aren't the reason why people want a more flexible quota control system.
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