<div dir="ltr"><div>As Christian said, that functionality would be nice as an app for people who want it. It shouldn’t be in core though because it’s a severe limitation of what people can do with their data. Storage space limitation is an easy model for everyone.<br>
<br></div>And about the confusion over the word »Quota« – for that reason I changed it to »Storage« in the development version. Will land in the next release.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Christian Reiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foss@christian-reiner.info" target="_blank">foss@christian-reiner.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Sampath,<br>
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On Wednesday 16 January 2013 11:15:49 Sampath Basnagoda wrote:<br>
> I'm planning to limit downloading amount of a particular user, because of<br>
> the bandwidth issues.<br>
</div>sounds to me like an addition that makes sense for certain situations. So<br>
having this available as an optional app would be great! Maybe it makes sense<br>
to handle upload and download limits likewise once you are on it.<br>
<br>
> I noticed that there is an option to select *Default<br>
> Quota *when creating a new user by the admin. What is it about? [?] Is that<br>
> maximum uploading amount for a user? [?] I couldn't find about this in the<br>
> documentation.<br>
No exactly. Quota limits are not applied transfer volume based, but<br>
statically. This is a traditional option from account management in a unix<br>
like environment:<br>
<br>
It limits the storage capacity a user account has available. Traditionally<br>
there were two limits: a hard and a soft quota. Hard meaning: operation fails,<br>
soft meaning it succeeds, however content is removed again automatically after<br>
a certain grace (and warning!) period.<br>
Such limit is obviously related to transfer volumes, since content has to be<br>
uploaded first. However it is not the same, since when the user frees storage<br>
capacity by removing content, then he is free to upload again.<br>
So the motivation for setting quotas is not bandwidth, but storage capacity.<br>
<br>
Christian Reiner (arkascha)<br>
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