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Re: Quota definitions

To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Quota definitions
From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:25:38 +0100

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:23:39PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> I would go with a new format. The current format is a table indexed
> by uid or gid. If you use large uid you get a very large sparse file.
> A different indexing scheme is needed.

/etc/lastlog (or some such file) also has records indexed by uid and
becomes sparse ....

        David

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David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost

References:
- Quota definitions
  - From: David Holland
- Re: Quota definitions
  - From: Manuel Bouyer

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