On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> Is there a better approach to solve the quota problem for
> closed systems (so that the quota is calculated and enforced with
> to-the-byte precision)? The first thing that comes to mind is
> some kind of quota server (this sounds a little too complex for something
> this simple, but I have no other ideas). This quota server would sit on
> a UNIX domain socket and tally up the quota. It would have queue and
> allow for concurrent client access to the quota mechanism. I know you'll
> hate this idea.
Well, it would be easy to make quota enalbed message store, if there will
be one point of access to it, say "mail store access deamon"...
> I think better a solution would be a per-directory
> quota support on FS level instead of traditional UID-level quota.
Yeah, it sounds reasonable... But I don't know if any filesystem is going
to support such functionality ;)
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