Chris Siebenmann wrote: | Speaking as one of those pesky university people (although we don't use | quotas): one of the reasons this happens is that servers are a lot less | expensive than disk space. With disk space you have to factor in the | cost of backups and ongoing maintenance, wheras another server is just N | thousand dollars in one time costs and some rack space.
This is also common in organizations where IT is a cost center, including some *very* large ones I've encountered in the past and several which are just, well, conservative. --dave -- David Collier-Brown | Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Mark Twain (905) 943-1983, cell: (647) 833-9377, (800) 555-9786 x56583 bridge: (877) 385-4099 code: 506 9191# _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss