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RE: libquota-devel - broken incomplete package ?


 Hello!

> I now have a working solution, but... this is Windows!
> 
> - Quotas only work on NTFS.  Not even the newer ReFS supports them.
> 
> - Quotas only work for users, not for groups.  You can add groups to
> the
>   filesystem's quota file (not via the GUI, btw), but they are simply
>   ignored because their "QuotaUsed" is always 0.
> 
> - Quotas for inodes obviously won't work.
> 
> - Quota time limits are not supported at all.

 Well... At least we can do what we can. I think it still makes sense, because now we have quota support. Yes, on Windows quotas are different from e.g. Linux, but i guess on different UNIX flavors (Linux vs BSD for example) they are also not supposed to work in the same way.

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia



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