[Owncloud] What should be affected by the quota limit

Jan-Christoph Borchardt hey at jancborchardt.net
Thu Jun 13 21:07:52 UTC 2013


Yes, it’s downright mean to count _external_ storage contents towards
the storage limit of a drive where the data isn’t even on. I guess
there’s not really a discussion about that the current state needs to
be changed to just count local files to the storage.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Arthur Schiwon <blizzz at owncloud.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 June 2013 18:00:09 Robin Appelman wrote:
>> Currently the storage quota effects all files in the users home folder
>> besides shared files. The problem with that is that any storage mounted in
>> the users folder (dropbox, smb, etc) will also count towards the storage
>> limit, which is usually not the desired behaviour.
>>
>> My idea for quota in oC6 is to only count files stored in the main storage
>> for the user (the storage mounted to /$user/) as part of the storage quota.
>>
>> Any opinions on this topic?
>
> Just local.
>
> I don't see a proper use case where it makes sense to take external storages
> into the calculation. Especially, because  you cannot define the quote per
> storage which would be necessary for a propper quota management (unless you
> want to implement it).
>
> Cheers
> Arthur
>
>>
>>  - Robin Appelman
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