30 May
2019
30 May
'19
8:34 p.m.
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:49:05AM -0700, 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?
Back when MIT Project Athena was using Vax/750's as time sharing
machines (before the advent of the MicroVax II workstations and AFS),
students were assigned to a Vax 750, and were given a quota of I think
a megabyte, at least initially. It could be increased by applying to
the user accounts office. Given that there were roughly 4,000
undergraduates sharing 5 or 6 Vax/750's, it was somewhat understandable...
- Ted