An LV for each user doesn't scale too well.  Currently, on PlanetLab
(http://www.planet-lab.org) we have over 1400 users per server, sharing
370+ accounts, with about 50% of the accounts having vservers.  

The virtual disk limit solution Herbert is developing is the only
solution that will scale to this size of system.

Paul Brett
PlanetLab Support
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


|    -----Original Message-----
|    From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
|    Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:07 AM
|    To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|    Subject: Re: [vserver] Per Context Disk Limits ...
|    
|    
|    On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:52:34AM +0200, Martin 
|    List-Petersen wrote:
|    > Citat Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|    > > > >updated the Context Quota Stuff to cq0.06 (and 2.4.22)
|    > > > >and added a per context Disk Limit dl0.02 to enable
|    > > > >virtual disk limits per context (per quota hash) ...
|    > > > 
|    > > > i'm not really sure i understand why you and others 
|    spend so much time 
|    > > > on the quota stuff. 
|    > > 
|    > > because there is a big? demand for this features ...
|    > > at least I think so ... 8-)
|    > > (hey providers, speak up now!)
|    > 
|    > I haven't seen a user yet, that is able to limit 
|    himself. If the need arises
|    > he'll use all the space he's provided with. This make 
|    quota unavoidable and
|    > necessary.
|    
|    Sure a user cant limit himself, but that can be solved 
|    with a LV for
|    each user.
|    
|    
|    
|    JonB
|    

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