Subject: Re: group quota and rquotad
To: Brian Ginsbach <ginsbach@cray.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/07/2002 17:15:55
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:36:55PM -0600, Brian Ginsbach wrote:
> * Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> [2002/12/06 11:15]:
> ...
> >
> > Now, I don't know if this version 2 protocol is just a linux thing, or
> > is standart (maybe part of NFSv4 ?). Solaris9 still only defines rquota
> > version 1; it seems it has no group quota support even for local filesystems.
> > FreeBSD has no group quota support in rquota.
> > Can someone with access to others operating systems check this ?
>
> I'm pretty sure that rquota v2 is just a Linux thing. I think they
> had it long before NFSv4 was standardized. Plus I'd be surprised
> if it was a part of NFSv4. I don't believe that rquota v1 was a
> part of NFSv2 or NFSv3.
No, rquota isn't part of NFSv3, I already checked as I have the NFSv3 specs.
But I've seen web about nfsv4 with mentions of rquota ...
>
> AFAIK IRIX (6.5.7 and earlier) don't support remote group quotas.
> I see newer versions of IRIX (6.5.17f) support do local group
> quotas. Maybe they've added remote group quotas too? The
> rpcsvc/rquota.h and a rpcinfo -p seems to inidicate that they
> haven't.
>
> I know that Cray UNICOS and UNICOS/mk don't support remote quotas
> at all -- NC1FS quotas are way different than the BSD style quotas
> that everone else uses.
OK, thanks !
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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