Chris Gerhard wrote:
One question that keeps coming up in my discussions about ZFS is the lack of
user quotas.
Typically this comes from people who have many tens of thousands (30,000 -
100,000) of users where they feel that having a file system per user will not
be manageable. I would agree that today that is the case however I personally
don't see this as an insurmountable problem. However the questions keep being
asked:
Given how quotas are managed on UFS are these people really having
30,000 entries in the quota file ?
When all we had was the UFS qutoa system I kept hearing that people
didn't like it and what they really wanted was group level quotas.
What ZFS gives you is a nice easy way to do group level quotas, you
give a group a filesystem and you have group quotas.
I see the biggest problem with qutoas at the user level being how to
effectively manage the data. Particularly if more than a single
file system is in use and most especially if there is more than a
single host involved.
From the people that keep asking for this, how would they like to see
this managed in an idea world ?
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Darren J Moffat
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