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Add quota support on Mac OS X
Authored by: dasil003 on Apr 30, '05 06:28:50PM

I just tested this out on Tiger and it works well... I was concerned that when you hit your hard limit you might not be able to login because of the need to do some temporary housekeeping, but that appears not to be the case. In fact, you seem to be able to do most things, with errors cropping mostly in regards to actually downloading and copying files. So if you inform the users about the limit, they should be able to delete files themselves to get back under.

Soft limits do nothing, but if you were to create a login script that checked your soft limit you could generate an AppleScript warning or something to alert the user. They could still get errors, but if you have a legitimate need for quotas (eg. you don't want your kids filling up your hard drive with downloads), then at least you limit the errors to the people who are responsible for them :)



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