"Chris" == Chris Thompson cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk wrote the following on Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:33:48 +0100 (BST)
Chris> 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.
Chris> That's simply not true. Any Unix filing system with a quota system Chris> descended from the BSD one (e.g. Solaris ufs quotas) supports soft Chris> and hard quotas, and will apply them in just the same way to file Chris> operations over NFS as to local ones.
Chris:
Thanks for the clarification. I have an old Falcon, nee Artecon, nee Dothill, FastFile Pro (or LynxNSS depending on the name you want to go by), that runs some sort of BSD derivative. While both the hardware and Lynx OS really suck, it does support soft quotas and grace periods. The SunOS and Solaris clients understand the soft quotas and grace period over NFS.
Ideally, this would be nice on the Filer because we send out warning messages via email each night to those who are close to their quota.
Tim
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