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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