From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, alan <alan@clueserver.org>,
"Fao, Sean" <Sean.Fao@dynextechnologies.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>
Subject: Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:34:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040625193436.GC8656@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088165267.8241.7.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com>
On Fri, 25 June 2004 07:07:48 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> Couldn't most of this be done in userspace with xattrs and a "elastic
> quota" daemon? Mark such files as elastic with an xattr, and when space
> is needed for user N, the daemon comes along and deletes the marked
> files. You could even make the deamon semi-smart and take things such
> as filesize, least recently used files, etc into account.
>
> Or maybe I am missing something...
"when space is needed" is hard to detect for the daemon.
Jörn
--
To my face you have the audacity to advise me to become a thief - the worst
kind of thief that is conceivable, a thief of spiritual things, a thief of
ideas! It is insufferable, intolerable!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-25 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 15:53 Elastic Quota File System (EQFS) Amit Gud
2004-06-23 17:53 ` Mark Watts
[not found] ` <1088016048.15211.10.camel@sage.kitchen>
2004-06-24 9:28 ` Amit Gud
2004-06-24 11:50 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-06-24 14:04 ` Sam Elstob
2004-06-24 13:51 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-06-24 14:17 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-24 19:58 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-24 20:28 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-24 20:30 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-24 21:30 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-24 20:51 ` alan
2004-06-24 22:03 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-24 23:07 ` alan
2004-06-25 0:15 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 11:57 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-25 12:07 ` Josh Boyer
2004-06-25 19:34 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2004-06-25 17:37 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-25 18:44 ` Amit Gud
2004-06-26 12:00 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-25 19:09 ` Amit Gud
2004-06-30 13:02 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-06-25 7:52 ` Lionel Bouton
2004-06-27 18:18 ` V13
2004-06-27 19:42 ` Lionel Bouton
2004-06-28 15:34 ` Amit Gud
2004-06-25 3:04 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-23 20:37 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-25 14:02 Amit Gud
2004-06-25 14:23 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-25 14:44 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-25 16:25 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 16:44 ` Alan
2004-06-25 17:35 ` Amit Gud
2004-06-25 20:22 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-25 23:50 ` Kevin Fox
2004-06-26 4:03 ` Amit Gud
2004-06-26 21:36 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-26 23:16 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-06-27 1:44 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-28 13:43 ` Rob Couto
2004-06-25 21:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 17:07 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-25 18:44 ` Amit Gud
2004-06-25 21:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-23 15:48 gud
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