I don’t understand why not having permission(s) doesn’t prevent the user from 
writing into the fileset...

As described, your case is about not wanting userA to be able to write to a 
fileset if userA isn’t in some groups. Don’t put them in those groups. That’s 
not even Spectrum Scale specific, it’s about generic *nix permissions.

What am I missing? I don’t understand why you would want to use quota to 
enforce permissions. (There could be a legitimate reason here, but I don’t 
understand it.)

Liberty,

-- 
Stephen Ulmer

Sent from a mobile device; please excuse autocorrect silliness.

> On Dec 3, 2017, at 10:49 PM, IBM Spectrum Scale <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Keith,
> 
> You can use ACLs for fine grained permissions. A quota limit of 0 in GPFS 
> implies no limits.
> 
> Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team
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> From:        Keith Ball <[email protected]>
> To:        [email protected]
> Date:        12/04/2017 08:19 AM
> Subject:        [gpfsug-discuss] Smallest block quota/limit and file 
> quota/limit        possible to set?
> Sent by:        [email protected]
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> 
> From: Keith Ball <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: 
> Bcc: 
> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 16:13:13 -0500
> Subject: Smallest block quota/limit and file quota/limit possible to set?
> HI All,
> 
> We have a system where all users have their own private group as well. 
> However, for a given fileset (we are using --perfileset-quota), we would like 
> to ONLY allow users who also belong to just a few central groups to be able 
> to write to the fileset. 
> 
> That is, user "userA" has its own "groupA", but we only want the user to be 
> able to write to the fileset if:
>  - userA belongs to one of the groups (e.g. group1, group2, group3) that have 
> explicitly set quotas
>  - The group(s) in question are within quota/limits.
> 
> In general, we do not want any users that do NOT belong to one of the three 
> groups with enabled quotas to be able to write anything at all to the fileset.
> 
> Is there a way to set a ZERO quota for block/file in GPFS, that means what it 
> actually should mean? i.e. "Your limit is 0 file = you cannot create files in 
> this fileset". Creating some kind of "supergroup" owner of the fileset (with 
> entitled users as members of the group) could work, but that will only work 
> for *one* group. 
> 
> If we cannot set the block and file limits to zero, what *are* the smallest 
> block and fie limits? In GPFS 3.5, they seem to be 1760MB for block. Is there 
> a smallest quota for files? (blocksize is 16MB, which will be reduced to 4MB 
> probably, in a subsequent cluster).
> 
> Many Thanks,
>   Keith 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Keith D. Ball, PhD
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