[net.cog-eng] are disk quotas in unix expert-friendly?

chongo@nsc.uucp (Curt Noll) (10/03/83)

some UN*X's have disk quotas.  do you think that this feature or lack
of this feature is expert-friendly?

i believe that while it may be user-friendly if well emplimented,
disk quotas actually are anit-expert-frendly because they tend
to get in the way, like so many of the 'user-friendly' features.

chongo /\../\

mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Lutz) (10/07/83)

Disk quotas are "system administrator" friendly, especially in
academia.  Since resources are "free" (i.e., bundled into the cost of
education), they tend to get used with reckless abandon.  If
implemented with care, quotas will not get in the way of most users,
and will prolong the life of the chief financial officer (who must
think sometimes that we joined the RP07-Of-The-Month club).

Mike Lutz
{allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!mjl