Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 20:52:01 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: dmp@pantherdragon.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inode quotas? Message-ID: <gu0qrtgfkseujo8um191iklm2e9ep8jibt@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <SEN.1002225782.408567770@news.sentex.net> References: <SEN.1002225782.408567770@news.sentex.net>
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:03:02 +0000 (UTC), in = sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I'm setting up quotas for webhosting and shell users. I've already set >the block quotas (20MB for shells, 100MB for webhosts), but am wondering >about inode quotas. What exactly is an inode? =20 Each file is referenced by a unique inode on the file system. >I know that one inode is >used for each file and directory, but, assuming a clean filesystem, does >a file or directory ever take more than one? If yes, when/why? A file will have only one inode, but a file system has a limited number based on how you newfs'd your file system. The quotas are there to = prevent a single user from consuming all the inodes on a system. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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