I would like linux to handle default quota limits like NTFS 5 do it.
So if a new user is added to the system and start to own disk space on a filesystem he
should get the default quotas for the specified FS as his own quotas.
Now a new user has unlimited disk space until root explicit sets quota limits for this user.
I have searched in google to find another unix witch allready implements this feature,
but I didn't find any. So I decided to add two (four) new cmd's to quotactl(),
Q_SETDEFQUOTA
Q_GETDEFQUOTA
and for the XFS Quotas
Q_XSETDEFQLIM
Q_XGETDEFQUOTA
this call should take the same paramter's as the Q_GETQUOTA /Q_XGETQUOTA ..
cmd's but the uid/gid should be ignored here and the filesystem defaults should be get or set.
I think this should be an easy task to be implemented in the filesystems witch allready support quotas.
I attach a patch witch modify the quotactl system call for this.
the implemetation inside the filesystems, should be done by the maintainers:-)
PS: I'm currently using XFS and it would be very cool if the default quota limits could implemented very fast...:-)
I hope I will get feedback :)
thanks anyway...
please cc me: in all replies:-)
metze
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