disk quota

[Jack F. Vogel]

In article <1991May17.000303.16324 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> guidry at casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David A Guidry) writes:
>In article <91136.145258AER7101 at TECHNION.BITNET> AER7101 at TECHNION.BITNET (Zvika Bar-Deroma) writes:
 
>>As for the suggestion to given
>>each user his own filesystem, this sounds like a bad joke to me !
>
>Don't laugh...just look at CMS,
>IBM took care of security interests by wasting TONS of disk space.
>Everybody has their own separate part of the disk.
 
Not that I am a fan of CMS, although I use it every day, IBM's APAR
management package runs on VM/CMS, but in the interest of accuracy I
can't let this critique go by.

I can't see that CMS is wasting anything. Have you heard of read/only
shareable minidisks? The CMS binaries reside on a single minidisk and
this is shared by ALL CMS users, so no waste there. What about the
fact that each user has a read/write minidisk of his own, how is this
wasting anything? He is using up some portion of real DASD, so what?
How is this any different really, from each Unix user's home directory?
Sure, CMS is a single-user OS, and it has its faults, but I don't think
"wasting TONS of disk space" is one of them.

Disclaimer: Opinions are my own, not necessarily LCC's nor IBM's.

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