Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 17:00:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Quotas over NFS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951230164941.5182A-100000@hub.org>
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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 With quotas turned on for my personal account, set at a value lower then what I currently have: > cp /etc/ttys . /usr/home: write failed, user disk limit reached cp: ./ttys: Disc quota exceeded The system does as it should, rejects any further writes to the drive. On the client machine: freebsd> cp /etc/ttys . freebsd> ls -l ttys -rw-r--r-- 1 scrappy wheel 0 Dec 30 16:48 ttys 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. So...the answer to the question. Yes, quotas will work if someone tries to exceed their quota from an nfs mount'd drive...but, IMHO, since their are no warnings or reasons giving to the user that would be trying to write that file, at this stage, Quotas over NFS are not usuable. 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? Note: I only bring up BSDi because I believe BSDi/FreeBSD and NetBSD tends to be branches from the same try...aren't they? And one of the threads that was brought up a short while ago tended to revolve around what needs to be done to FreeBSD in order to make it more palatable to ISPs...this is a major shortcoming towards that end, I think. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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