[7932] in Athena Bugs
bug with quota
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (acevedo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 15 09:56:01 1991
From: acevedo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 91 09:56:17 EDT
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
When I login, I got this message:
User acevedo over disk quota on /mit/sipb, remove 46K
This is a bug. I understand that for technical reasons, quota can't
check all the mounted AFS directories to see if you have write
permission, so it checks all of them.
It's still a bug.
There is no reason to do this. It is confusing and unnecessary. It
also slows down logging in. Why do we need to continue the quota -v
confusion from previous releases? If you can't check which ones I have
write access to, then just report my homedir. What if I have access to
other lockers? Then education is the answer. Users who have quota on
other lockers should know to check for them themselves.
If anything, quota's default behavior should be to check for only your
home directory. Then do quota -all or something like that to do the
current [incorrect] behavior. Most of the time I don't care about what
else is attached, even if I do have write access. Users will primarily
check their home directories. If they want something else, they can use
fs lq. Or use quota -all.
At any rate ... I think that no matter how you look at it, this is a
bug that should be fixed.
Raul
