Quota Quotas place restrictions on the amount of resource any one person can use. They are implemented across the board to allow fair sharing of the resource among many people, and reduce the possibility that any one person will use an inordinately large portion of a resource, to the exclusion of others. On the IMSA network, we impose quotas on the use of network drive space for these very reasons. Drive space is not unlimited, and can only be increased with the expenditure of Academy funds. Therefore, as stewards of the resource, the Academy places user limits on drive space.
Every effort is made to place limits fairly.
That is, with an understanding of what constitutes reasonable usage by various groups of users, and with provision for exception under unusual circumstances. Further, review of quotas will be conducted from time to time, or as demand for additional drive space presents itself, to determine whether the quotas remain reasonable. Home directory quotas are implemented with both hard and soft limits. The user will be notified immediately when this occurs. Quotas are implemented on both the Titan and Novell server clusters.