Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:00:06 +0200 | Subject | Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS) | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:14:50AM +0530, Amit Gud wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > > > > >I have a much simpler idea that both implements the EQFS and doesn't > >touch the kernel. > > > >Each user is given a quota which applies to their home directory. > >(This quota is not elastic and if everyone met their quota, everything > >would fit.) In addition, there is another directory or file system > >(could be on the same disk or even the same partition) to which their > >quota doesn't apply AT ALL. Let's call this "scratch" space. > > > I guess the system should be more transparent to the users and their > applications. Here its not convenient to generate .o files or caches in > /scratch/$USER/ . > Symlinks. I mozilla stores a cache in .mozilla/something, then make .mozilla/something a symlink to /scratch/user/.mozilla/something
In a big installation, a script can do this for all users as well as similiar tricks for other caching apps.
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