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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Quotas on v2.1?
To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:36:07 -0700 (MST)
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> > This is not true, I have quotas not on the root filesystem, and it works
> > OK, but I heard, that it's impossible to make quotas on root filesystem.
> 
> It used to be impossible to run quotas on more then 1 filesystem. Is this still
> true?

I don't think so.

Quotas wants to be a seperate FS layer anyway.

To avoid direct address bypassing of quotas, you'd have to fix the mount
order and FS recognition code if you did this though.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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