Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:30:06 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: It's 2008. 1 TB disk drives cost $160. Quotas are 32-bit. Message-ID: <20080701213006.37D675B4B@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:02:54 %2B0200." <20080701200254.GB17364@cicely7.cicely.de>
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On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:02:54 +0200 Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:59:31AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > To bring this back on topic, perhaps John Kobuzik can just > > use the zfs since it already has quota support? For example, > > > > # zfs create z/foo > > # zfs quota=10M z/foo > > dd < /dev/zero bs=1M count=20 > /z/foo/xx > > dd: stdout: Disc quota exceeded > > 11+0 records in > > 10+0 records out > > 10485760 bytes transferred in 4.718700 secs (2222171 bytes/sec) > > # zfs set quota=10T z/foo > > # zfs get quota z/foo > > NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE > > z/foo quota 10T local > > This is basicly what the partition size is for normal filesystems, > with the great ability of course to change it cheaply at any time. > But this is in no way a per user quota in the way ufs does. It is not the same but can serve a similer purpose if each user gets his own filesystem (and yes, I am aware of the rebooting issue with zfs with thousands of filesystems). He wanted support for 2TB+ quota on ufs by July 20. If that doesn't happen at least he can limp along with this.
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