From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:53:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCE6E6E.3DD3C2D6@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15310.25406.789271.793284@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown wrote:
>
> Hi,
> In my ongoing effort to provide centralised file storage that I can
> be proud of, I have put together some code to implement tree quotas.
>
> The idea of a tree quota is that the block and inode usage of a file
> is charged to the (owner of the root of the) tree rather than the
> owner (or group owner) of the file.
> This will (I hope) make life easier for me. There are several
> reasons that I have documented (see URL below) but a good one is that
> they are transparent and predictable. du -s $HOME should *always*
> match your usage according to "quota".
Err, except maybe when you also own a file in /home/idiot/idiots_unprotected_storage_dir
(This relates not at all to your patch/comments.)
--
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President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-18 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-18 5:06 RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2) Neil Brown
2001-10-18 5:53 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2001-10-18 8:38 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-18 20:20 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-18 20:47 ` Tim Walberg
2001-10-19 1:07 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-19 3:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-19 11:50 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-19 17:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-18 21:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-18 22:56 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-19 0:14 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-19 0:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-19 1:13 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-19 0:53 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-24 15:16 ` Jan Kara
2001-10-24 15:34 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-24 15:39 ` Jan Kara
2001-10-24 15:50 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-24 17:41 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-24 18:08 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-26 11:25 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-24 21:24 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-25 15:48 ` Jan Kara
2001-10-26 4:36 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-29 14:06 ` Jan Kara
2001-10-29 23:23 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-30 12:33 ` Jan Kara
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2001-10-19 3:00 Toivo Pedaste
2001-10-19 4:39 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-24 18:44 Jesse Pollard
2001-10-25 6:15 ` Albert D. Cahalan
[not found] <fa.inl6g6v.1mmbp4@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.heevhav.sjs8an@ifi.uio.no>
2001-11-18 22:15 ` Swap Dan Maas
2001-11-18 22:43 ` Swap François Cami
2001-11-19 9:18 ` Swap James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 10:51 ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-19 13:33 ` Swap James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 13:46 ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-19 16:58 ` Swap Rik van Riel
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111191458150.1491-100000@duckman.distro.conecti va>
2001-11-19 21:13 ` Swap Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-19 21:17 ` Swap Rik van Riel
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111191917000.1491-100000@duckman.distro.conecti va>
2001-11-19 21:52 ` Swap Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-19 16:36 ` Swap Jesse Pollard
2001-11-20 14:51 ` Swap J.A. Magallon
2001-11-20 16:01 ` Swap Wolfgang Rohdewald
2001-11-20 16:06 ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 16:12 ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-20 16:20 ` Swap Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 17:14 ` Swap Christopher Friesen
2001-11-20 17:40 ` Swap Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 18:14 ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-21 10:17 ` Swap Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 11:17 ` Swap Alan Cox
2001-11-20 23:20 ` Swap Luigi Genoni
2001-11-21 16:44 ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 17:58 ` Swap Wolfgang Rohdewald
2001-11-26 21:51 ` [Linux-abi-devel] Swap Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-20 21:05 ` Swap Steffen Persvold
2001-11-20 21:18 ` Swap Mike Fedyk
2001-11-20 21:33 ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-20 21:44 ` Swap Mike Fedyk
2001-11-20 22:00 ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-21 16:53 ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 21:43 ` Swap Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 21:50 ` NFS, Paging & Installing [was: Re: Swap] Mike Fedyk
2001-11-21 1:22 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-21 1:46 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-21 10:55 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-11-22 5:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-11-22 12:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-11-23 19:33 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-20 21:19 ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-21 16:48 ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 20:58 ` Swap Mike Fedyk
2001-11-19 10:03 ` Swap Tim Connors
2001-11-19 10:16 ` Swap Dan Maas
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