| Every time I've come across a usage scenario where the submitter asks
| for per user quotas, its usually a university type scenario where
| univeristies are notorious for providing lots of CPU horsepower (many,
| many servers) attached to a simply dismal amount of back-end storage.
Speaking as one of those pesky university people (although we don't use
quotas): one of the reasons this happens is that servers are a lot less
expensive than disk space. With disk space you have to factor in the
cost of backups and ongoing maintenance, wheras another server is just N
thousand dollars in one time costs and some rack space.
(This assumes that you are not rack space, heat, or power constrained,
which I think most university environments generally are not.)
Or to put it another way: disk space is a permanent commitment,
servers are not.
- cks
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