30 May
2019
30 May
'19
8:23 p.m.
As a university student in the 1980s we had a cluster of Sun 3/50s using
a Gould computer as a file server over NFS. The system administrators
had quotas enabled (5MB per student) to prevent students gobbling up
disk space.
Here's an email I received when I used more disk space than what was
allowed.
From: Tim [...] <[...](a)doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 10:54:18 GMT
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.0.3 12/22/89)
To: zmact61(a)doc.ic.ac.uk
Subject: quota
Message-ID: <9002131054.aa20550(a)tgould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Status: ORr
D Spinellis
I see you have taken advantage of a small admin. oversight when
no quotas were set for your class.
On Friday 16th I shall be setting your disk quota to 5Mb, and your
inode quota to 500. Please take appropriate action.
Disk quotas for (no account) (uid 1461):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
/home/gould/teach
18545 20000 21000 1602 1700 1750
/home/gould/staff
0 200 250 0 40 50
Diomidis
On 30-May-19 16:49, David wrote:
I think it was BSD 4.1 that added quotas to the disk
system, and I was just wondering if anyone ever used them, in academia or industry. As a
user and an admin I never used this and, while I thought it was interesting, just figured
that the users would sort it out amongst themselves. Which they mostly did.
So, anyone ever use this feature?
David