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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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  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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