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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 01:03:47 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2)
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday October 18, twalberg@mindspring.com wrote:
> > A semi-random thought on the tree-quota concept:
> >
> > Does it really make sense to charge a tree quota to a single specific
> > user? I haven't really looked into what would be required to implement
> > it, but my mental picture of a tree quota is somewhat divorced from the
> > user concept,

> However I actually want to charge usage to users.
> There is a natural mapping from users to directory trees via the
> concept of the home-directory.

Say ... /home/students   ?


Rik
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