From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 050766B0069 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:07:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:07:12 +0100 From: Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas Message-ID: <20111107230712.GA25769@tango.0pointer.de> References: <1320614101.3226.5.camel@offbook> <20111107112952.GB25130@tango.0pointer.de> <1320675607.2330.0.camel@offworld> <20111107135823.3a7cdc53@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20111107225314.0e3976a6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111107225314.0e3976a6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Alan Cox Cc: Kay Sievers , Davidlohr Bueso , Christoph Hellwig , Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org On Mon, 07.11.11 22:53, Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > Per user would be quota, per process would be rlimit. Quite simple > really, nice standard interfaces we've had for years. Various systems Uh, have you ever really looked at resource limits? Some of them are per-user, not per-process, i.e. RLIMIT_NPROC. And this would just be another one. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org