[Jfs-discussion] Re: default quota limits in linux (via quotactl())

[Jan H. <bu...@uc...>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:40:14AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 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?

While all the 1 milion users actualy ever LOG IN that site?

And... do they ever log into that site AT THE SAME MOMENT?

> surely the argument for a default here isn't a terrible one?

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