Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 5-Mar-96 User-friendly quota
Christer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (562*)
> Has anyone done anything to make the AFS and / or DFS quota system more
> user-friendly.
> I'm thinking of the normal UNIX/NFS qouta where users are, for a limited
> time, allowed to go over quota and then be warned.
> Has someone written some kind of warning system ?
I think that what you're referring to is the ``normal UFS'' case, in
which there's a threshold for opening new files for writing and another
threshold for adding more data to them. Actually, I thought that AFS
had exactly this semantics, but I'm not sure.
DFS has exactly the semantics of the filesystem being exported, whether
that's ``DCE LFS'' (Episode), UFS, or JFS, or whatever (AdvFS, CrayFS,
....). I don't think that Episode provides more than one threshold.
What I'd be interested in would be some write-up of what
``user-friendly'' might mean in this context (where quotas are applied,
authoritatively, at the server). Clearly one could distinguish file
creations from file writes; is that all you'd need?
Craig
