[Box Backup-dev] "setlimit 0 (...) back with vengeance

[Martin Ebourne]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 21:02 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, G. wrote:
> > Exceeded storage limits on server -- not uploading changes to files
> 
> Yes, I hadn't thought about that, but it will do that.
> 
> This is a client-side problem. We should probably treat a limit of zero as 
> a special case on the client, and ignore it, trying to stay below the hard 
> limit instead in this case. In fact, we shouldn't even be able to exceed 
> the hard limit, so this should be very easy to implement.

It's not clear to me how it can behave like this for soft limit of 0 and
not be broken for other softlimit values, whatever they may be.

I haven't looked at the code, but if the client is trying to stay below
the soft limit that sounds wrong to me.

Cheers,

Martin.