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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)

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