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Subject: Re: NFS quotas and mail spools
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970327205142.183A-100000@bullfrog.ecp.net> from Justen Stepka at "Mar 27, 97 08:53:04 pm"
To: raistlin@bullfrog.ecp.net (Justen Stepka)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:30:48 -1000 (HST)
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From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
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Justen Stepka
>
>
>On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, David Langford wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the status of being able to handle quota's over NFS?
>> 
>> We have a mail machine here that has user quotas and recently we have
>> put users on a seperate machine. Since NFS doesnt support quota's
>> this seems to have the possibility of completly wiping out mailboxes if the
>> user is over quota.
>
>NFS does support quota's...
>
>rquotad is the daemon that you'll need to use.. I using 3.0c and I'm not
>sure what version before this have this supported.

Well under 2.1.7 and 2.2.1 I get "mount_nfs: -o userquota not supported".

I get the feeling that this means that NFS does not support quotas's under
the released versions of FreeBSD.

-David Langford
 langfod@dihelix.com