NSS Quotas Not Being Enforced
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Dec 2002
Q.
Have you seen problems using directory quotas on NetWare 6 with Support Pack 1 or 2 applied? If so, are you seeing any problems with the quotas being enforced? We've seen some instances where quotas on NSS are not being enforced at all. Any insight would be great!
Frank File System Flathers
A.
Dear Frank: My question to you would be to ask whether you are using NSS compression. There have been reports on the Novell Technical Support newsgroups about funny shenanigans if Directory Quotas and NSS compression are both in use.
NSS also seems to have a problem with user quotas. Apparently what happens with compression is that the compressed files are reported as taking up 0 bytes (that's pretty good compression!) and when the file is deleted, it deducts the real size, so your users can actually have negative space used. (The NSS Development Team knows about this one.)
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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