Subject: Re: Has anyone found a way to implement quotas with MFS?
To: der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/23/1996 11:00:19
der Mouse writes:
> > But quotacheck seems to want an ffs... [...]  Has anyone come up with
> > an elegant (or at least a working) way to have quotas on an mfs?
> 
> I doubt you'll get that.  But you should be able to get the functional
> equivalent by using an rd ramdisk instead of mfs; those are, AFAIK,
> real disk devices, capable of ffs, iso9660, msdos, etc - any filesystem
> you can have on a real disk, you can have on an rd.

The file system on an mfs is really an ffs in a chunk of process
memory...

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