ADDENDUM FW: Summary Questions about Tru64 V5.1A

From: Pedro Cunha <pcunha_at_decsis.pt>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:59:34 +0100

Also thanks to:

William Magill.

Who as also answered to my question.

With:

1) There is any official release date?

Late June - July. The Field Test ended today.

2) Will be user and group quotas supported over CFS?

Yes. Not only that, but they work again!

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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Pedro Cunha  
> Sent:	Quinta-feira, 31 de Maio de 2001 15:33
> To:	'Tru64 Unix Managers'
> Subject:	Summary Questions about Tru64 V5.1A
> 
> Hello Managers,
> 
> First of hall my special thanks to:
> 
> Matthias Dolder.
> Rochelle Lauer.
> Dr. Thomas Blinn.
> 
> The general concensus is that:
> 
> The (unofficial) release date it will be somewhere in July and that
> user and group quotas will be supported, with Trucluster and CFS.
> 
> The original question and full replies are below.
> 
> 
> Replies:
> 
> | I need to ask You a couple of questions about Tru64 V5.1A.
> | 
> | 1) There is any official release date?
> no, but current status would indicate a shipment date
> around end of July.
> 
> | 
> | 2) Will be user and group quotas supported over CFS?
> yes.
> 
> hth
> M.Dolder
> -------------------------------------------
> Compaq Computer (Schweiz) GmbH, Switzerland
> Matthias Dolder
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I don't think there is an official release date.  July is what I heard
> 
>  There ARE user and group quotas.  I tested this feature during field
> test
>   and it appears to work fine.  There are some minor discrepencies
>   in the implementation (quotas wont match exactly).
> 
> regards
> rochelle lauer
> yale university physics
> rochelle.lauer_at_yale.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
> No one who reads this list is authorized to give you an official
> answer.
> 
> The earliest release date for Tru64 UNIX V5.1A will be in July, 2001.
> 
> What is "CFS"?  Not part of the base Tru64 UNIX operating system,
> right?
> Do you mean "will user and group quotas be supported in the cluster
> file
> system by the TruCluster Server V5.1A product?"  As far as I know, the
> answer is "yes" but that's just a guess.  If they're not working in
> the
> current (V5.1) product, that would be a bug, not a design feature; the
> cluster file system is SUPPOSED to implement all the local file system
> semantics, distributed in a cluster.  Many people would argue that the
> user and group quotas have never really worked correctly in the AdvFS
> file system, which is the base for the cluster wide file system, so if
> you are having problems, don't assume it's a cluster file system bug.
> 
> Tom
>  
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> 
> 
> Original question:
> 
> 
> Hello Managers,
> 
> I need to ask You a couple of questions about Tru64 V5.1A.
> 
> 1) There is any official release date?
> 
> 2) Will be user and group quotas supported over CFS?
> 
> I will summarize.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pedro Cunha
> (Systems Engineer)
> 
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Pedro Cunha
> (Systems Engineer)
> 
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