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SubjectRe: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2)
On Friday October 19, toivo@eleusis.ucs.uwa.edu.au wrote:
>
>
> >However I actually want to charge usage to users.
> >There is a natural mapping from users to directory trees via the
> >concept of the home-directory. It is home directories that I want to
> >impose quotas on. So it seems natural to charge space usage to a
> >users.
>
>
> The use I can see for tree quotas whould be quite divorced from
> accounts or users. Currently if you want limit the amount of
> space the say /tmp, /home or /var/mail uses you need to put
> it on a separate partition, but if you could put a quota
> on a tree you'd have a much more flexible systema adminstration
> tool to control the disk space used by each particular function.

This relates to Rik's idea of having a treequota on "/home/students"
which would apply to all students, not any one user.

One issue here is: how do you tell the quota-system what constitutes a
tree, for quota purposes.

NetworkAppliances have had treequotas on their filer for quite some
time, and I believe that you have to create quota trees explicitly
with "qtree create"

I would rather not have to add such a new command if I can avoid it.

For the above senarios, I would simply create an accout called "tmp"
or "home" or "mail" (you might have that one already) or "student",
assign a quota to that account, and chown the directory appropriately.
Afterall, there is no real reason why /tmp should be owned by "root".
Any "system" account should be fine.

Can anyone else see a good way to flag an inode as "root-of-a-qtree"
that does not require a new command and does not relate to uids?

NeilBrown


>
> I quite like the idea of the quota being related to an inode.
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