30 May
2019
30 May
'19
8:29 p.m.
On Thu, 30 May 2019, 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?
As an undergrad in the 90s I was most definitely subject to quotas on
university systems. I believe Unix filesystem quotas have been widely
used.
FWIW I have quotas enabled on my home fileserver (without enforcement)
just so I can see user utilisation at a glance.
Cheers,
Rob