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Quota Compatibility between Linux and Solaris

Posted by Cliff on Sunday October 17, 1999 @03:11PM from the do-the-limit-police-speak-the-same-language? dept.

Gaewyn L Knight writes "Our institution just set up a large disk array on a Linux server using Debian. After our elation at gettin quotas set up we realised that our Solaris boxes where reporting quota sizes and time limits wrong. ex. 15mb quota 7 day time limit showing up as 32mb quota with a 388 month limit. So my main question is who's fault is it and is there a patch?"

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Linux NFS & Quotas by Shaman · 1999-10-17 20:52 · Score: 2

Both Linux NFS and Quotas are badly, horribly broken. Until the 2.4 kernel is along you're out of luck.

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Re:More Quota questions by Pascal+Q.+Porcupine · 1999-10-19 09:59 · Score: 2

Well, um, generally users don't have access to the non-/home parts of the system, so imposing user quotas on whatever mount contains /home shouldn't be a problem, right? Unless you want them to still have /var/spool/mail as unlimited stomping grounds. I can't help but remember this one thing I did in college to get around the home directory quota - I made a hidden directory in /var/spool/mail and put stuff in that. :) (There was no mail quota.) Another thing I did was I'd take advantage of the fact that there was only a quota per user on the fileservers they were on (we had a big-ass 'farm' of Linux boxes which served as fileservers), and so I'd work up a deal with friends on other fileservers where we'd have a .noquota directory where we could keep large stuff in each others' accounts. It was fun, getting around quota restrictions like that... :)
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