[Owncloud] Download limit implementation

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

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.

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.



On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Christian Reiner <
foss at christian-reiner.info> wrote:

> Hi Sampath,
>
> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 11:15:49 Sampath Basnagoda wrote:
> > I'm planning to limit downloading amount of a particular user, because of
> > the bandwidth issues.
> sounds to me like an addition that makes sense for certain situations. So
> having this available as an optional app would be great! Maybe it makes
> sense
> to handle upload and download limits likewise once you are on it.
>
> > I noticed that there is an option to select *Default
> > Quota *when creating a new user by the admin. What is it about? [?] Is
> that
> > maximum uploading amount for a user? [?] I couldn't find about this in
> the
> > documentation.
> No exactly. Quota limits are not applied transfer volume based, but
> statically. This is a traditional option from account management in a unix
> like environment:
>
> It limits the storage capacity a user account has available. Traditionally
> there were two limits: a hard and a soft quota. Hard meaning: operation
> fails,
> soft meaning it succeeds, however content is removed again automatically
> after
> a certain grace (and warning!) period.
> Such limit is obviously related to transfer volumes, since content has to
> be
> uploaded first. However it is not the same, since when the user frees
> storage
> capacity by removing content, then he is free to upload again.
> So the motivation for setting quotas is not bandwidth, but storage
> capacity.
>
> Christian Reiner (arkascha)
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