Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

Kay Sievers
2011-11-07T22:38:18Z

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:15, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> (11/7/2011 6:30 AM), Lennart Poettering wrote:

> If you want per-user limitation, RLIMIT is bad idea. RLIMIT is only inherited
> by fork. So, The api semantics clearly mismatch your usecase.

Like RLIMIT_NPROC?

> Instead, I suggest to implement new sysfs knob.

Where would users show up in sysfs?

Kay