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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:30:06 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: It's 2008. 1 TB disk drives cost $160. Quotas are 32-bit. 
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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.