quotas an essential feature? (was: svn commit: r218953 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall)

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:25:00PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> 
> > While I can understand some may want its not something we use on any of
> > our machines, and I suspect that's the case for many others.
> > 
> > Given adding it means the kernel will be doing extra work and hence a
> > drop in performance...
> 
> Does anyone have benchmark results to measure the performance hit?

I imagine there wouldn't be any (or extremely negligible)
unless you used quotaon(8).

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