question about quota implementation

Tue Apr 22 10:20:35 EDT 2003

--On Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:36 PM +0200 Brasseur Valéry 
<Valery.Brasseur at atosorigin.com> wrote:

> I was wandering why quota was implement in a directory tree on disk an not
> in a database like "mailboxes" ?
>
> is there any reason ? performance ? partical ? recovery ?

Quirk of history. This is bug #63:
<http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=63>

Larry