31 May
2019
31 May
'19
1:19 a.m.
On 30 May 2019 06:49 -0700, from david(a)kdbarto.org (David):
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?
Don't forget probably every ISP under the sun.
My first Internet account in 1995 (or possibly 1996) came with *nix
shell access (please don't ask me what variant; I used it mostly to
run pine, and occasionally pico, and it was dial-up which was charged
per minute by the phone company) and a 4 MB quota, which you could pay
to have increased. That quota covered everything in your $HOME; as I
recall, including e-mail, and definitely including ~/public_html.
These days, it seems that with the exception of _really_ cheap
accounts, web host quotas are big enough that they for all intents and
purposes might as well not be there, even with today's bloated
content. Back then, even 4 MB for everything felt on the tight side,
and you certainly had to think about what you put there.
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