On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Darek M <[email protected]> wrote:

> playing around with setting quotas inside a jail.  Configured and
> tested them on the host, configured a quota for a jail user, but it
> isn't being enforced.  I attempted to set
> security.jail.param.allow.quotas to 1, from command line, from
> /etc/sysctl.conf, and from /boot/loader.conf, but it remains set to
> '0'.
> 
> Am I looking at the right sysctl?  If not, where should I be looking?
> If yes, why does it appear to be immutable?

I'm assuming you have basically one UFS filesystem for all your jails. Is that 
the case? If so, do you have quotas enabled on the host? See the handbook if 
you haven't already:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html

> I'm doing this on a 9.0-RELEASE system

Another way to set hard quotas for jails is to give each one its own filesystem 
of fixed size. This is trivially easy with zfs--just create a zfs for each jail 
and set the quota property. To use UFS you can create image files of whatever 
size you want, make them md(4) devices, and then newfs(8) and mount(8) them. 
Unlike the method in the handbook, neither of these options requires kernel 
quota support.

JN

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