libquota-devel - broken incomplete package ?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 17 08:25:00 GMT 2014
On Oct 17 10:08, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> 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.
Ok, thanks. I applied my patch.
Corinna
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