- From: Brian Korver <briank@xythos.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:44:48 -0600
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 08:51 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Brian Korver wrote: > >> On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 03:08 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> Then please explain how the latest draft adresses the issue. Also >>> explain why mixing physical disk limits and quota is ok, although it >>> creates confusing behaviour *and* is incompatible with NFS. >>> >>> Julian >> Simple, we went with NFS's model rather than quota-limit. So, if it's >> still confusing to you, then blame NFS. >> I didn't realize that compatibility with NFS was one of WebDAV's >> requirements. ;-) > > Brian, > > as far as I can tell, there's nothing confusing with what NFS says. > The confusion arises because the quote spec > > - marshalls disk limits and quota using the same mechanism (contrary > to NFS) and > - the quota spec introduces a new property for authoring quota. > > Why doesn't the quota spec just *copy* the relevant parts of NFS (all > we need to is map four property names)? > > Julian Julian, The quota draft does differ from NFS, but that property alone shouldn't mean that the quota draft is confusing. Perhaps you could state what you find confusing about the current draft (and please, use the current draft, because this stuff has changed). -brian briank@xythos.com
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