Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS)

[Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>]

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.

Helge Hafting