From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 03:25:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167B8106564A for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (kozubik.com [69.43.165.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B008FC14 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:25:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from kozubik.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m683nP4b079302; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by kozubik.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id m683nMjg079299; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:49:22 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik To: Wes Morgan In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20080707203314.T1807@kozubik.com> References: <20080701213006.37D675B4B@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: It's 2008. 1 TB disk drives cost $160. Quotas are 32-bit. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:25:13 -0000 On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Wes Morgan wrote: > > It is not the same but can serve a similer purpose if each > > user gets his own filesystem (and yes, I am aware of the > > rebooting issue with zfs with thousands of filesystems). He > > wanted support for 2TB+ quota on ufs by July 20. If that > > doesn't happen at least he can limp along with this. > > On a totally spurrious note, I'd love to know the storage environment > where a 1 TB quota on a multi-user system is meaningful. If I truly need > that much space as a user, and I hit your quota limit, I'll probably be a > very, very unhappy user! No, you'd be a paying customer. The environment is rsync.net. Users pay a monthly fee for X GB of storage. Some users require more than 2200 GB. It makes me very happy to run a modern enterprise with basic unix tools and methodologies. It's nice to imagine that all manner of normal folks out in the world, in 2008, are being served by the same logic and philosophies that evolved in the days of true multi-user shared unix systems. That is, if those core functions still worked. ----- John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com