31 May
2019
31 May
'19
6:37 a.m.
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:21:02PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
Several list members report having used, or suffered
under, filesystem
quotas.
At the University Utah, in the College of Science, and later, the
Department of Mathematics, we have always had an opposing view:
Disk quotas are magic meaningless numbers imposed by some bozo
ignorant system administrator in order to prevent users from
getting their work done.
Thus, in my 41 years of systems management at Utah, we have not had a
SINGLE SYSTEM with user disk quotas enabled.
I can see both sides of this, but man, do I love the attitude of just
get out of their way and let them do their work. I get the reasons
that other people did disk quotas, it's reasonable, but I like Nelson's
approach better.