On 11/12/97 16:13:05 you wrote:
I have answered this question many times, and I am sick of it.
Hey, you don't have to convince *me*. I didn't mean it as a personal attack. But I do know it has been a source of confusion. As you see yourself, different people here had different expectations. So perhaps it's not quite as obvious as it seems?
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.
My investigations into this tell me they work much like Guy Harris says. Do you agree with his assessment? If your version of soft quotas differs, in what way does it differ? Does your SunOS system report you as over soft quota over NFS as soon as it happens?
I'm only trying to facilitate the questions and answers here.
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?
What would a Netapp implementation do, other than report a "time left" or somesuch in the field reported via the quota command?
Bruce