Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:33:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from tapu.f00f.org (tapu.f00f.org [202.49.232.129]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id h0S9X83v016877 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:33:10 -0800 Received: by tapu.f00f.org (Postfix, from userid 10000) id 53FFD1855104; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:40:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:40:14 -0800 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Jan Hudec , "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , viro@math.psu.edu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au, Andreas Dilger , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jfs-discussion@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, Alexander Bokovoy Subject: Re: default quota limits in linux (via quotactl()) Message-ID: <20030128094014.GA23257@f00f.org> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030127150905.0217e170@post.strato.de> <5.2.0.9.2.20030127150905.0217e170@post.strato.de> <5.2.0.9.2.20030128074810.0218c4f8@post.webmailer.de> <20030128093250.GM28513@vagabond> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030128093250.GM28513@vagabond> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-No-Archive: Yes X-archive-position: 2444 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: cw@f00f.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 584 Lines: 18 On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:32:50AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote: > It still isn't a kernel problem, but a user-space one. You need to > get or write a PAM module, that will check wether quotas are set for > user being authenticated and if not, set them. You could even store > the qutoas in the LDAP (or some other) database and check them when > a user logs in... consider 1 million users where only a small percentage of them will ever write to the fs ... why even store 1 million quota values needlessly at all? surely the argument for a default here isn't a terrible one? --cw