From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 7 08:41:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA13207 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 08:41:10 -0700 Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA13193 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 08:41:08 -0700 Received: (from owensc@localhost) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.7.2 rev 08/22/95) id LAA00228; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 11:40:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 11:40:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: hackers list FreeBSD cc: terry@lambert.org Subject: re: QUOTAS... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Recently, T. Lambert said: { Limit the way in which you use quotas. Don't run multiple instances of edquota. Turn quota's off before running edquota and back on when you are done editing. Use the quotactl(2) interface to turn quotas on using specific file paths to put the quota files on the drives where quotas are being enforced (ie: get rid of the 'userquota' option and turn them on manually per fs in your /etc/rc after they've been mounted. That should keep you away from at least the known failure modes. } Regarding what you said about the 'userquota' option, I was under the impression that quotas weren't turned on at mount-time, but only when the 'quotaon' command is invoked. Am I wrong? Are you suggesting that it is safer if, instead of using the 'userquota' option and 'quotaon', we write a small program that turns quotas on using the quotactl(2) routine? thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------