Hi Benoit and Arjan,
Thanks for your replies - I've been away from my Inbox.
[Benoit Branciard]
If possible without critical data loss or downtime, repartitioning
would be an option to consider. You may for example allocate some
space (say 70GB) on sda for the container's roots (mounted on /vz),
and keep the huge /data to provide data space to containers by means
of bind mounts on various points of their diretory tree.
[Garith]
Ideally I'd like to not use partitioning as this limits the flexibility
I have with changing the amount of disk space a container has access to
but it might be the solution in this scenario.
[Arjan]
I must say I haven't tried with quotas, but without quotas OpenVZ can
handle it perfectly.
My container has DISK_QUOTA="no" set, and it can use my 5 TB perfectly:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vzfs 4.8T 2.2T 2.7T 45% /
#
So I guess you should look into the limits of the quota support.
[Garith]
I think in this case I'll be stuck with the same issue unfortunately -
If a container fills up the disk then all the containers suffer.
As mentioned above I might have to go with repartitioning the raid array
to benefit from using a physically "separate disk" to store data on for
that specific container requiring more than 2tb.
A question though - would you not be in the same position I'd be in if
chose to either 'mount --bind' or not use disk quotas? How would you
overcome a user filling up the disk and thereby also filling up the
other containers' "disks" you have? Unless of course you have only one
container?
I guess though the real question is why the 2tb limit when using
quotas.. Google isn't being helpful at the moment so I might need to use
one of the other suggested solutions for now.
Thanks!
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