- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:05:45 +0200
- To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>, "'Stefan Eissing'" <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, "Webdav WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Lisa Dusseault > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:56 PM > To: 'Stefan Eissing'; Webdav WG > Subject: Re: FW: I-D ACTION:draft-dusseault-dav-quota-01.txt > > ... > > Quota is applied to a collection, *not* a user, specifically because of > the model where a user doesn't just put documents in their own home > directory. That's explicit in the draft, and it's an important feature > to allow directories to be shared by many users and still have quota > applied. So if a quota of 1000MB is applied to the "/sales/" > collection, the server is free to report that quota, and count space > consumed by resources in the "/sales/" collection in whatever way its > policy decides. This kind of quota system is incompatible with the quota system in a Unix filesystem (where AFAIK it's per user) -- a standard proposal must be able to handle these kinds of systems as well. > ... Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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