Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:53:50 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2) |
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Neil Brown wrote: > > Hi, > In my ongoing effort to provide centralised file storage that I can > be proud of, I have put together some code to implement tree quotas. > > The idea of a tree quota is that the block and inode usage of a file > is charged to the (owner of the root of the) tree rather than the > owner (or group owner) of the file. > This will (I hope) make life easier for me. There are several > reasons that I have documented (see URL below) but a good one is that > they are transparent and predictable. du -s $HOME should *always* > match your usage according to "quota".
Err, except maybe when you also own a file in /home/idiot/idiots_unprotected_storage_dir (This relates not at all to your patch/comments.)
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