Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:25:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: It's 2008. 1 TB disk drives cost $160. Quotas are 32-bit. Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0807011918560.1232@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <20080701213006.37D675B4B@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20080701213006.37D675B4B@mail.bitblocks.com>
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Bakul Shah wrote: > 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. On a totally spurrious note, I'd love to know the storage environment where a 1 TB quota on a multi-user system is meaningful. If I truly need that much space as a user, and I hit your quota limit, I'll probably be a very, very unhappy user!
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