When in Restrictive mode, the rquotad service picks the first applicable quota threshold crossed. It enables the user to determine the amount of data that can be safely recorded against this quota before reaching its Hard Limit. This is the default configuration option for rquotad on the server.
If the user quota allowed 10 K of data and 100 files to be added, and the virtual volume quota allowed 100 K of data and 10 files to be added, rquota would return information stating that 10 K of data and 10 files could be added. Similarly, if the user quota is 10 K of data of which 5 K is used, and the virtual volume quota is 100 K of data of which 99 K is used, rquota would return information stating that 1 K of data could be added.
The console command rquota is provided to change between the two options, and also to disable access to quota information. For information on how to configure rquota, refer to the Command Line Reference.