From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 06:20:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA11068 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 06:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.is.co.za (apollo.is.co.za [196.4.160.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA11063 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 06:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin.is.co.za (admin.is.co.za [196.23.0.9]) by apollo.is.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.5/IShub#2) with ESMTP id PAA01997; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:20:11 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from robin@localhost) by admin.is.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.5/ISsubsidiary#1) id PAA21284; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:20:07 +0200 (GMT) From: Robin Lunn Message-Id: <199607101320.PAA21284@admin.is.co.za> Subject: Re: Quotas To: cc@tuna.dolphinet.co.uk (Charlie Conklin) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:20:05 +0200 (GMT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607100947.KAA12782@tuna.dolphinet.co.uk> from "Charlie Conklin" at Jul 10, 96 10:47:16 am X-Organisation: The Internet Solution (Pty) Ltd. X-Phone: +27-11-4475566; Fax: +27-11-4475567 Reply-To: robin@is.co.za X-AIDAT-Member: See http://www.aidat.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Charlie Conklin wrote: > Is anyone out there using quotas succesfully. I have seen some comments > to the effect that they are a bit buggy, and make the system unstable. > Has anyone had bad (or good!) experiences with them? Hi there, I've had good experience with quotas under FreeBSD and find that it doesn't affect system stability at all. (200+ users on rucus.ru.ac.za) Only bad experience is wanting to quota the root fs which causes the machine to hang after a minute or two. The developers know about this and mentioned something about needing a hierarchical lock manager. I don't think this is fixed yet, but may be wrong. -- _ __ | Only my ideas here unless I say otherwise... ' ) ) / | (BeamJack@IRC) /--' ____/___o __ | "Nondum amabam, et amare amabam... quaerebam / \_(_) /_) (__/) )_ | quid amarem, amans amare." - St Augustine