Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Net Llama!
THis sounds like it would work, except, what happens if someone wants to pay for 20MB of space? Sure, you could create a loop back file of 20MB, but this doesn't seem all that elegant. Also, copying the contents of one 'allocation' to a larger one is also not all that elegant. On Mon, 8 Apr

guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Morning all: I have a client that wants to migrate to Linux from Solaris, but one of their main gotchas is the quota support in Linux. They believe (as do I) that quotas seem to be the first thing broken (and the last thing fixed) whever a change is introduced into the fs or block

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Monday 08 April 2002 12:56, Net Llama! wrote: THis sounds like it would work, except, what happens if someone wants to pay for 20MB of space? Sure, you could create a loop back file of 20MB, but this doesn't seem all that elegant. Also,

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Monday 08 April 2002 12:56, Net Llama! wrote: THis sounds like it would work, except, what happens if someone wants to pay for 20MB of space? Sure, you could create a loop back file of 20MB, but this doesn't seem all that elegant. Also, copying the contents of one 'allocation' to a

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Monday 08 April 2002 13:13, Net Llama! wrote: Sure, but would it maintain data integrity, or just give you a gob of data 20MB in size? dunno. guess I'll go play. methinks /home/netllama looks like a good candidate ;) (teasing!) -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 08, Douglas J Hunley managed to emit: Morning all: I have a client that wants to migrate to Linux from Solaris, but one of their main gotchas is the quota support in Linux. They believe (as do I) that quotas seem to be the first thing broken (and the