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From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: disk quota
Keywords: quotas
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Date: 14 May 91 00:52:06 GMT
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Well, by now you've surely heard the news that there are currently no
disk quotas in AIX 3.1.   The documentation sort of implies that there
are quotas right around the corner, but I've heard this is wrong.   The
"inside rumor" is that it might not be in the next big release, whenever
that comes out.  The offical response is "We're market driven.  If the
market wants it, then we'll write it."

The only alternative I see is to use NFS (or something like AFS) and let
that handle the quota problem. Then you lose the nice JFS properties.

Personally, I don't think you can run a real student timesharing machine
without the ability to use disk quotas.

jdh