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From: dawn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dawn Owens)
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Subject: Re: disk quota
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Date: 18 May 91 03:23:23 GMT
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guidry@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David A Guidry) writes:

>Don't laugh...just look at CMS,
>IBM took care of security interests by wasting TONS of disk space.
>Everybody has their own separate part of the disk.

Don't laugh..If you are using one of the big stat packages (SPSS or SAS)
having your own disk space saves you ALOT of headache.  These packages
often need some place to write a large temporary workfile.  Let's say
you want to write it in /tmp.  You check first, and there is plenty of
room, so you start your job.  Then suddenly someone else grabs some /tmp
and there is no longer enough room for your workfiles..your job bombs.
You have to hang around, keep trying, and it can cost a lot in money
and time.  This problem doesn't come up in CMS.

Dawn