Quota Questions 5.3 Release

[Jon Adams]

Hi,

~       Theres a high probablility this is a stupid question, but I
must ask it....


Heres the situation:  I am leasing a server from a relatively well
known ISP in the DC area... It is installed w/ FreeBSD 5.3 Release
(Generic)

These geniuses gave me the box without the ports tree or the kernel
sources...  This wouldnt be a problem, except that, among other
things, they didnt compile in the quota support.  I desperately need it.

Questions:

1. Is there a kernel module to implement quota support (I have googled
incessantly trying to find it w/o much luck)

2. Is there a trivial way to get the kernel sources and ports tree
(and more importantly, how safe (in terms of the box coming back) is
it to recompile the kernel if I can get the sources) - they pretty
much killed about 50% of my reason for getting FBSD by leaving out the
ports WTF??.

3. Finally, out of curiousity, does anyone know why quota support is
left our of the stock FreeBSD Kernel, I am assuming there must be a
compelling reason for this... and are there any alternatives (short of
me writing lots of ugly code - which I have lacking time and
motivation for)

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Jon Adams - jonaadams at nsu.nova.edu / jkadams at computer.org
Graduate Student, SCIS, Nova Southeastern University
http://www.scis.nova.edu/~jonaadam/
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