Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:14:07 +0000 From: "Mark Castillo - webFreaks.com" <phineas@webfreaks.com> To: Tim Gustafson <guff@falconsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Quota Problems? Message-ID: <19980224001358.AAA9645@webfreak> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980223191145.00932e30@ns.falconsoft.com>
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Tim, The online handbook has a whole section on this. I am not sure what is buggy about it, it seems to work fine for me. The soft limit is like a "warning" limit to the user. The hard limit will not let the user go above the limit by any means. The grace period allows a user to use above the soft limit for a given amount of time, after that time is up, they cannot write any more blocks. For example, I set a soft limit of 10000 blocks (10MB), and a hard limit of 10500 blocks (10.5MB). A grace period of 7 days is defaulted. If this user goes above 10MB, he will get a warning message. The grace period is now in effect. During this grace period, he may write above 10MB (he will get warnings), but never ober 10.5MB (hard limit). At 07:11 PM 2/23/98 -0500, you wrote: >I read in the quota man pages that the quota system is still somewhat >buggy. In what respect? Also, what's the difference between a hard block >limit and a soft block limit, and what's the grace period allow me to do? >There doesn't seem to be much documentation on the theory of quotas, only >the implementation. > >Tim >Tim Gustafson >guff@falconsoft.com >516-654-1868 x 101 > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Please be sure to include your domain name in the subject of the >e-mail to insure that it is routed properly. >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------- Mark Castillo Systems Integration Engineer markc@relationships.com http://www.relationships.com ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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