Samuel J. Greear wrote:
2^16 is nowhere close to enough. Quota's are very useful and to be useful you need to support hundreds of thousands of users. I consider lack of useful quota's to be one of our most major deficiencies.
show me a single unix system with 100k's of users? I'm sure there's a few. but not 'hardly useful' if not supporting less than 100k also: $ grep 'uid_t;' /usr/include/sys/types.h typedef __uint32_t uid_t; /* user id */ so like.. 32768 < 100k which isn't to say unix user/groups etc. is be-all-end-all of "user systems" - but it works pretty well for most cases - and this statement quite simply *not true* - run a workgroup lan for like 5 minutes - and you'll find that 'hey this quota thing is a good idea'
