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Re: Quota definitions



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:44:15PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > > > Yes, that's another issue. The uid turnover also leads to a sparse uid
 > > > map.
 > > 
 > > Right. Changing the data structures around won't help much with that
 > > though.
 > 
 > You'll have a more compact format, so you don't have one disk
 > block allocated to store quotas for one or 2 entries ...

Only if someone adds the necessary infrastructure to clean out old
entries when users are removed...

(Also, even one full disk block per user is a negligible amount of
space.)

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David A. Holland
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