On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:55:35PM -0600, Eric Estabrooks wrote: > Brian Ipsen wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >If I want to be able to limit disk-usage for a specific account inside a > >vserver/context - is it the patches/procedure described at > >http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Linux2.6/index.php?page=Per+Context+Disk+Limits > >I need to follow ?? > >Eg. the uid 544 (login: user1) is only allowed to use 200 MB of diskspace > >inside the vserver, where the account is created (and the vserver is > >running > >on a LVM partition) ... > > > >Regards, > > > >/Brian > >_______________________________________________ > >Vserver mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > > > > > one easy option is to create a file of the size you want to restrict the > vserver to and mount that in loop back and install the vserver on it. > an advantage of doing this is it makes it very easy to move that vserver > to another box, just shut it down and copy one file.
the disadvantage of this approach is, that you eat up I/O and memory, because every file is cached twice (the file itself, and the loopback file) ... move from one host to the other is simple in any way, just use dump/restore, tar or rsync ... best, Herbert > Eric > _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
