Re: [zfs-discuss] To reserve space

2010-03-24 Thread David Magda
On Wed, March 24, 2010 14:36, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > The question is not how to create quotas for users. > > The question is how to create reservations for users. There is currently no way to do per-user reservations. That ZFS property is only available per-file system. Even per-user and per

Re: [zfs-discuss] To reserve space

2010-03-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
rable. From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:33 PM To: Edward Ned Harvey Cc: Freddie Cash; zfs-discuss Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] To reserve space On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Out of curiosity, the more general sol

Re: [zfs-discuss] To reserve space

2010-03-24 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Out of curiosity, the more general solution would be the ability to create > a > reservation on a per-user or per-group basis (just like you create quotas > on > a per-user or per-group basis). Is this possible? > OpenSolaris's zfs has

Re: [zfs-discuss] To reserve space

2010-03-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> > zfs set reservation=100GB dataset/name > > > > That will reserve 100 GB of space for the dataset, and will make that > > space unavailable to the rest of the pool. > > That doesn't make any sense to me ... > > How does that allow "subversionuser" to use the space, and block > "joeuser" from u

Re: [zfs-discuss] To reserve space

2010-03-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> zfs set reservation=100GB dataset/name > > That will reserve 100 GB of space for the dataset, and will make that > space unavailable to the rest of the pool. That doesn't make any sense to me ... How does that allow "subversionuser" to use the space, and block "joeuser" from using it? _

Re: [zfs-discuss] To reserve space

2010-03-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Is there a way to reserve space for a particular user or group? Or > perhaps to set a quota for a group which includes everyone else? > > I have one big pool, which holds users’ home directories, and also the > backend files for the sv

[zfs-discuss] To reserve space

2010-03-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Is there a way to reserve space for a particular user or group? Or perhaps to set a quota for a group which includes everyone else? I have one big pool, which holds users' home directories, and also the backend files for the svn repositories etc. I would like to ensure the svn server process