On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:34:34AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > David Nugent wrote: > >Janet Sullivan wrote: > >>No, I don't use quotas. I doubt the majority of FreeBSD users do. > > > >I don't either, but "the majority of FreeBSD users" is a shifting > >thing, and very hard to make generalisations about. Once quota was > >about shell users, now it's more common for mail servers to manage > >storage quotas in a more appropriate way according to their storage > >mechanism and there are less shell users due to more convenient and > >"user friendly" networking applications that provide functionality > >that can be more easily secured. > > > >Quotas are now used more often with samba than anything else, and of > >course it's use has skyrocketted in recent years for obvious reasons. > >So who knows... > > Quotas are important to certain mail servers as you mention, and they > are also very important for webhosting. Hosting solutions such as Plesk > utilize quotas. As we all know, fbsd has been the OS of choice for > webhosting, lets not let that slip away.
Feel free to stop beating the dead horse any day now... Kris
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