On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:12:14 +0100 Simon Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Generic Quotas > -------------- > > Christof had raised the issue of providing a more generic quota > mechanism, which allows more flexible definitions of what quota might > be (rxosd would like to be able to apply a separate quota to files > under a certain size, for example) > > We discussed implementing this as a set of tag value pairs, with each > pair having a globally defined meaning. Individual tags need not be > implemented on every fileserver - there should be an RPC by which > clients can determine which tags a fileserver supports. We want to > implement this by revising existing RPCs which take quota values, and > use it to replace the quota values that those RPCs already contain. > > Christof will write a document describing this, but we won't block > the RPC refresh on it Upon reading this, I thought, why should we limit this to quotas? Should we have a more generic extensible volume metadata RPC that can be used for any volume-related purpose? I would imagine an xattr-like functionality at the volume level could be potentially useful for numerous things. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
