quotas not working a x86_64?

[Paul Raines]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> -- Paul Raines <raines at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> is rumored to have mumbled on 5. 
> Juli 2005 16:32:52 -0400 regarding Re: quotas not working a x86_64?:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Ken Murchison wrote:
>> 
>>> Its possible.  I'm fairly certain that the code has been tested
>>> successfully  on 64-bit Solaris.  It seems odd that the quota file looks
>>> OK (which means  that the code successfully handled writing the limit
>>> and usage), but fails a  quota check.
>> 
>> Actually I was setting the quota to '2000000000' which I thought was 2GB,
>> but I guess now was 2TB.  THe system seemed to take it.  Is there some
>> maximum for a quota in the system like 2GB no matter what the setting is?
>
> We had this discussion a little while ago. In the current code the quota is 
> set in KBs, but calculated in bytes. It's a 32 bit variable, so the limit is 
> 2 GB ... this will be different in 2.3

Okay, so the maximum one can give in the cyradm setquota command is
2000000?   Anyway, I have several users with over 2GB so I will have
to not use quotas anyway.
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