SUMMARY: NFS and quotas

From: Joana Peres <jperes_at_garfield.fe.up.pt>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:05:38 +0100

I'm sorry for the late summary but i haven't time to
send it till now.
Thanks very much for the answers.

I've received two answers:

>From: lesc_at_icr.hcnet.usp.br
>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 13:03:19 +1100
>Subject: NFS and quotas
>Message-Id: <5A1CF70DE_at_icr.hcnet.usp.br>
>Status: RO

>funciona

>From: rioux_at_ip6480nl.ce.utexas.edu (Tom Rioux)
>Message-Id: <199609301626.AA27923_at_ip6480nl.ce.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: NFS and quotas
>To: jperes_at_garfield.fe.up.pt (Joana Peres)
>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 11:26:46 CDT
>In-Reply-To: <199609301528.AA06007_at_garf.fe.up.pt>; from "Joana Peres" at Sep 30,
> 96 4:28 pm
>X-Mailer: ELM [version 07.05.00.00 (2.3 PL11)]
>Status: RO

>you put quotas on the server system where the files physically resides;
>NFS mounts from other systems will use the server system to read/write the
>files and thus honor the quotas; there is no need to put quotas on the
>client systems.

I,ve tried and it funcions perfectly well.

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My original question:

> I have to export home directories via NFS for the students and I needed
to
> control the disk space with something like quota.
>
> How can I do that? I heard that there is a NFS quota daemon but it
degrades
> very much the performance.
>
> Is there another way to do it?

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