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docs: quotas: clarify compatbility; only relevant to serve side

also cf. "Enforcing the quota":

  The quota is enforcible only if *all* :ref:`borg_serve` versions
  accessible to clients support quotas
Marian Beermann 8 years ago
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 .. rubric:: Compatibility with older servers and enabling quota after-the-fact
 
 If no quota data is stored in the hints file, Borg assumes zero quota is used.
-Thus, if a repository with an enabled quota is written to with an older version
-that does not understand quotas, then the quota usage will be erased.
+Thus, if a repository with an enabled quota is written to with an older ``borg serve``
+version that does not understand quotas, then the quota usage will be erased.
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+The client version is irrelevant to the storage quota and has no part in it.
+The form of error messages due to exceeding quota varies with client versions.
 
 A similar situation arises when upgrading from a Borg release that did not have quotas.
 Borg will start tracking quota use from the time of the upgrade, starting at zero.