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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:41:41 +0100
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Subject: Re: File system ideas
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Once upon a time (on 25 Apr 97 at 16:03) Lorier said:

> >> isn't in the "your allowed" catagory mails root, and runs shutdown -h
> >> now" :)
> >Also a quota feature would be nice - not based on UID/GID but rather on
> >file's associated attributes. A great thing for "flexible" swapfiles,
> >database "trashcans" etc. 
> 
> Hmm, you gotta be carefull, people will "delete" files then undelete them to
> get around quota, and/or load them into virtual memory.... :)
;-)Yeah, the old trick from FreeBSD ;-)) Well, that can be cured somehow I'm 
sure. Besides, it would serve not to prevent anyone from allocating this or 
that amount of space, but to warn him about a possibly dangerous situation. 
With quota per se, it is possible to set a grace value.
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