[AusNOG] retroactively implementing file share quotas - eep :-p

[Gareth Fletcher]

+3 throwing more storage at it. Cheap as chips.

Or just do a blanket 1gb policy where you can (if there's some ancient
political requirement) and e.g . could script a daily email out to the
larger users saying they must delete stuff, which also applies 1gb policy
once the directory is under.

2c
GF
On 13/02/2013 5:09 PM, "Joshua D'Alton" <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:

> +2 to that. And especially with iSCSI the users won't notice any
> performance issues.
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>wrote:
>
>>  On 02/13/2013 01:54 PM, Tim March wrote:
>>
>>
>> Aren't you better off dropping $1,500 on a Synology/Netgear NAS with a
>> bunch of  RAID5/6 7500RPM 2.5TB SATA3's in it and just giving them 7TB to
>> duke it out over? Surely spending a couple of days screwing about
>> squabbling over a couple of TB is more costly than just buying some storage.
>>
>>
>> +1 to that.  No matter what the scale, i've always found buying more
>> storage cheaper than managing existing storage.  (I'm sure there are issues
>> at the very high end, but most of us don't have to worry about that.)
>>
>> Paul
>>
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