From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 22 19:46:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA14672 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 19:46:24 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA14664 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 19:46:20 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA27742; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:13:44 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506230243.MAA27742@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Disk quotas: why broken, when fixed? To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:13:37 +0930 (CST) Cc: pete@dsw.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506221821.AA03268@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 22, 95 12:21:15 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1278 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > A short history of when disk quotas were broken, why they got broken, and > > what might be needed to fix them would be very helpful. > > I'm not currently working on quotas. [...and then proceeds to explain the (arguably justifible) reasons why...] > Anyway, it's pretty ugly code and I don't want to look at it any more. 8^). Umm. That's not very useful in the light of the large numbers of people who need quotas _now_; broken, limited, performance-impaired or not. Are you prepared to offer them guidance in kludging what there _is_ now to avoid the significant evils whilst you work on your Morally Upstanding and Hi-Fibre filesystem layers? If not, who should they turn to for guidance in the lands of shadow? > Terry Lambert (I expect Terry is mature enough to read the above in the light it was written. Please no vigilantes 8( ) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[