Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:50:21 -0700
From: Kevin Fox <Kevin.Fox@pnl.gov>
Subject: Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS)
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Not to argue whether its a good idea but, one use for this would be
undeleting. rm becomes a set EQFS bit. You keep all your old files that
way until space is really needed and then they get reclaimed. You might
not want that to count against your quota.

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 13:22, Fao, Sean wrote:
> Amit Gud wrote:
> 
> > It cannot be denied that there _are_ applications for such a system 
> > that we already discussed and theres a class of users who will find 
> > the system useful.
> 
> 
> I personally see no use whatsoever.  Why not just allocate 100% of the 
> file system to everybody and ignore quota's, entirely?  Each user will 
> use whatever he/she requires and when space starts to run out, users 
> will manually clean up what they don't need.
> 
> I am totally against the automatic deletion of files and believe that 
> all users will _eventually_ walk in on a Monday morning to find out that 
> the OS took it upon itself to delete a file that was flagged as elastic, 
> that shouldn't have been.  I also tend to believe that the exact 
> time/date that the file was removed could conceivably occur six months 
> prior to that Monday morning, without the users knowledge.  Now the 
> burden will again be placed on to system administrators.  This time, to 
> locate and recover the lost file(s) by sorting through months of 
> archives.  Personally, I prefer setting quota's on an individual bases, 
> to finding a needle in a haystack
> 
> In my mind, you either have a quota or you don't; there's no in between.
> 
> Sean
> 
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