From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>,
Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Enforcing quota for root user
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:34:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141111233419.GX28565@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54628F7B.7080604@sandeen.net>
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 04:36:43PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 11/11/14 4:32 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:00:25AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >>
> >> On Nov 11, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 11/11/2014 04:22 AM, Cyril Scetbon wrote:
> >>>> That's what I've read first, but someone showed me a sample where it works. He just told me he was using project quota. However, does it make sense ?
> >>>> I've also read somewhere else that quota is never enforced for root user (id,gid=0) that's why I was testing it ....
> >>>
> >>> No, it doesn't make sense. Why would you want to enforce quotas for root?
> >>
> >> A week ago I tried this and project quotas appear to apply to root.
> >
> > By intent and design. Project quotas are not a user/group based
> > quota and so there is no exemption for any user.
>
> However, at least according to the manpage, "project ID 0" is not
> enforced. Granted, that is not a *user* exception.
Correct, and again by intent and design as project quotas are
optional. i.e. there has to be some way of ensuring non-project ID
controlled files won't have quota enforcement applied to them. ;)
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-11 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-10 22:46 Enforcing quota for root user Cyril Scetbon
2014-11-11 6:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-11-11 10:22 ` Cyril Scetbon
2014-11-11 15:36 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-11-11 18:00 ` Chris Murphy
2014-11-11 22:32 ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-11 22:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-11-11 23:34 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-11-11 23:35 ` Chris Murphy
2014-11-12 0:09 ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-12 13:55 ` Cyril Scetbon
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