Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:33:36 +0530 | From | Amit Gud <> | Subject | Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS) |
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Fao, Sean wrote:
> Amit Gud wrote: > >> It cannot be denied that there _are_ applications for such a system >> that we already discussed and theres a class of users who will find >> the system useful. > > > > I personally see no use whatsoever. Why not just allocate 100% of the > file system to everybody and ignore quota's, entirely? Each user will > use whatever he/she requires and when space starts to run out, users > will manually clean up what they don't need. > We should get our basics right first. We _do_ need quotas!! Without any quota system how are we going to avoid a malicious user from taking away all the space to keep other people starving? In EQFS also this can happen, but we are giving *controlled flexibility* to the user. He is having some stretching power but not beyond a certain limit. And do you think users are sincere enough to clean up there files when they are done?
> I am totally against the automatic deletion of files and believe that > all users will _eventually_ walk in on a Monday morning to find out > that the OS took it upon itself to delete a file that was flagged as > elastic, that shouldn't have been.
User is the king, he decides what files should be elastic and what not. This can always be controlled.
AG
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