As Christian said, that functionality would be nice as an app for people who want it. It shouldn’t be in core though because it’s a severe limitation of what people can do with their data. Storage space limitation is an easy model for everyone.
And about the confusion over the word »Quota« – for that reason I changed it to »Storage« in the development version. Will land in the next release. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Christian Reiner < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sampath, > > On Wednesday 16 January 2013 11:15:49 Sampath Basnagoda wrote: > > I'm planning to limit downloading amount of a particular user, because of > > the bandwidth issues. > sounds to me like an addition that makes sense for certain situations. So > having this available as an optional app would be great! Maybe it makes > sense > to handle upload and download limits likewise once you are on it. > > > I noticed that there is an option to select *Default > > Quota *when creating a new user by the admin. What is it about? [?] Is > that > > maximum uploading amount for a user? [?] I couldn't find about this in > the > > documentation. > No exactly. Quota limits are not applied transfer volume based, but > statically. This is a traditional option from account management in a unix > like environment: > > It limits the storage capacity a user account has available. Traditionally > there were two limits: a hard and a soft quota. Hard meaning: operation > fails, > soft meaning it succeeds, however content is removed again automatically > after > a certain grace (and warning!) period. > Such limit is obviously related to transfer volumes, since content has to > be > uploaded first. However it is not the same, since when the user frees > storage > capacity by removing content, then he is free to upload again. > So the motivation for setting quotas is not bandwidth, but storage > capacity. > > Christian Reiner (arkascha) > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >
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