Re: [Vserver] disk quota and vhashify

From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel_at_hozac.com>
Date: Wed 13 Jun 2007 - 20:05:11 BST
Message-ID: <51971.192.168.101.12.1181761511.squirrel@intranet>

ADNET Ghislain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To have disk quotas it seems the best to have a partition for each
> Vserver guests. But vhashify use hardlink and i think it does not cross
> partition. What would be the best way to have vhashify AND quota on the
> vserver ?
>
>
> *Is there a way to implement "user/group quota" per VServer?*
>
> A: Yes, but not on a shared partition for now. You need to put the guest
> on a separate partition, setup a vroot device (to make the quota access
> secure), copy that into the guest, and adjust the mtab line inside the
> guest.
>
>
> is disk limits the solution ? how disk limit work with the quota
> support ?
>
> http://oldwiki.linux-vserver.org/Disk+Limits
>
> this tells that it set limits but i don't know how this interact with
> the quota utilities or the likes. Anyone ghas experiences on how it works
> ?

Disk limits limit the entire guest on that filesystem, not users or groups
within that guest.

Nobody has wanted user/group quotas on a shared filesystem yet to do the
required testing.

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
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