From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 05:36:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC7916A40A for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 05:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3DFC43D88 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 05:35:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968AC1A3C19; Sun, 7 May 2006 22:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D4E1851695; Mon, 8 May 2006 01:35:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 01:35:58 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Jakubik Message-ID: <20060508053558.GA16540@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060504033300.GA39935@xor.obsecurity.org> <44598615.3040400@rogers.com> <20060504044758.GA41047@xor.obsecurity.org> <44599732.1050905@rogers.com> <20060505080543.GD5466@garage.freebsd.pl> <35c231bf0605051049t2761281ar97b9634b8279b1fd@mail.gmail.com> <445B991F.3050600@rogers.com> <445BCEE3.6040607@bgp4.net> <445EBC38.9090301@datalinktech.com.au> <445ED86A.2030801@rogers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <445ED86A.2030801@rogers.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Janet Sullivan , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, David Nugent Subject: Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 05:36:10 -0000 --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:34:34AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > David Nugent wrote: > >Janet Sullivan wrote: > >>No, I don't use quotas. I doubt the majority of FreeBSD users do. > > > >I don't either, but "the majority of FreeBSD users" is a shifting=20 > >thing, and very hard to make generalisations about. Once quota was=20 > >about shell users, now it's more common for mail servers to manage=20 > >storage quotas in a more appropriate way according to their storage=20 > >mechanism and there are less shell users due to more convenient and=20 > >"user friendly" networking applications that provide functionality=20 > >that can be more easily secured. > > > >Quotas are now used more often with samba than anything else, and of=20 > >course it's use has skyrocketted in recent years for obvious reasons.=20 > >So who knows... >=20 > Quotas are important to certain mail servers as you mention, and they=20 > are also very important for webhosting. Hosting solutions such as Plesk= =20 > utilize quotas. As we all know, fbsd has been the OS of choice for=20 > webhosting, lets not let that slip away. Feel free to stop beating the dead horse any day now... Kris --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEXti+Wry0BWjoQKURAp3aAJ41TziscAWvEpN6PwaN2syj/6nujgCfZXPV rtpXrhU6+XOV40k/6EfmpkE= =DHaW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--