Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!ames!amdahl!JUTS!kpc00 From: kpc00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (kpc) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Hard links: Why? Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 06:58:38 GMT References: <1990Jul24.200022.2265@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Jul30.153949.28122@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Aug3.193609.22399@eng.umd.edu> Sender: kpc00@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: my-organization Lines: 14 In-reply-to: proven@eng.umd.edu's message of 3 Aug 90 19:36:09 GMT In article <1990Aug3.193609.22399@eng.umd.edu> proven@eng.umd.edu (Christopher Provenzano) writes: Lets take it one step further. Suppose You have a quota and you fave a file XXX. Joe Schmo cretes a hrd link to file XXX. Later you delete the file, but XXX exists as another file name, so your quota is still charged for file XXX. This can happen, also Joe Schmo Maybe the system's quota or file ownership policies can be changed? For example, if you unlink the file, perhaps the file can be somehow put in his quota? Or maybe everybody can have a workstation with its own disk. -- Neither representing any company nor, necessarily, myself.