Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

Alan Cox
2011-11-07T23:43:07Z

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:07:12 +0100
Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> wrote:

> 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.

NPROC is a bit of an oddity.

And the standards have no idea how a resource limit hit for an fs would
be reported, nor how an app installer would check for it. Quota on the
other hand is defined behaviour.