Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 15:08:19 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quotas over NFS Message-ID: <199512302308.PAA23366@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Dec 1995 17:00:52 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951230164941.5182A-100000@hub.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> >Hi... > > Okay, trying to come up with a definitive answer here, or some sort >of semblance of it...What happens with Quotas over NFS-mounts :) > > Test NFS server v2.1-STABLE machine > Test NFS client v2.2-CURRENT machine > > On the client machine: > > It truncates the file, but gives no warnings/error messages at >all. This, I think, could be construed as being worse overall then leaving >Quotas turned off altogether, since a user would never know his quota is >exceeded. > > Is anyone working on fixing this? This is *duck* one point in favor >of BSDi over FreeBSD right now...BSDi does give an error message if you >attempt to exceed your quota from an NFS mounted machine (the error message >eludes me at this time). Does anyone know if NetBSD has support for this? > Any system that gives "quota exceeded" type error messages on NFS mounted filesytems has an rpc.rquotad implementation. NetBSD has one. We're about to import NetBSD's and it looks like BSDI has one already. I'm not sure about the amount of glue required in the kernel once we have the daemon in the tree, but it is WIP. > >Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199512302308.PAA23366>