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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Summary: Do you run Unix without disk quotas?
Message-ID: <9DZ98Y8@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 17:19:50 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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One point that you have missed bringing up in this summary is that a lot of
us consider automated disk quotas a negative value. If you have enough disk
space to hold the sum total of all the quotas, all you've done is create
the equivalent a bunch of partitions without any of the advantages of the
same. If you don't, then you haven't solved the problem of disk space abuse:
just narrowed the window. Like ulimits, it's an idea that sounds nice but
is really just an attempt to apply a technological quick fix to a social,
organizational, or procedural problem.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"