On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Oren Held wrote: > Hi, > > We're trying to set quota per directory in my organization. > We use Linux & Solaris, and the builtin-kernel quota feature is only per > file owner or amount of inodes, afaik.
indeed so. > Problem is, that some directories are shared for many people > (i.e. /data/projects/webapp) with different UIDs and GIDs, though I > still want to be able to limit the 'webapp' directory to a maximal value > of 1GB. > > Anybody knows a free or commercial tool with the above feature, or a > simple way to implement it? someone once wrote a patch to support tree quotas, in kernel 2.4.13, for ext2 file-system only. if you google, you'll see there are commercials products to handle this for.... windows ;) some work arounds - put the directories you want to limit on seperate file-systems. try to use LVM to manage that, in order to make oyur life simpler. for "advisory" quota handling - use the "group quotas + sgid directories" tricks people talk about in some places. note: i don't know anything about this - i just got curious and performed a google search. did you? -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
