Thank you, Magnus for such quick reply! Good pointers in there! Cheers, Artur On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 14:50, Magnus HAGDORN <Magnus.Hagdorn@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Artur, > we did write a script (in fact a series of scripts) that we use to > manage our users and their quotas. Our script adds a new user to our > LDAP and sets the default quotas for various storage areas. Quota > information is kept in the LDAP. Another script periodically scans the > LDAP for changes and creates directories and adjusts quotas > accordingly. > > I have a more detailed description of how we use cephfs to provide home > directories on my blog here: > > https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mhagdorn/2020/08/04/school-of-geosciences-file-storage/ > > Hope this helps. > magnus > > On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 13:31 +0200, Artur Kerge wrote: > > This email was sent to you by someone outside the University. > > You should only click on links or attachments if you are certain that > > the email is genuine and the content is safe. > > > > Hello! > > > > As I understand CephFS user max file and byte quotas > > (ceph.quota.max_{files,bytes}) can be set on an MDS (or CephFS > > client) via > > setfattr command (https://docs.ceph.com/en/octopus/cephfs/quota/). > > > > My question is, how can the quotas be set automatically for every new > > user's home directory? > > > > Currently the setup of adding a user and setting limits is following: > > new > > user is added on LDAP, home folder is created with skel on CephFS > > (mounted > > via kernel driver) and then the ceph.quota's are set. I'd like to > > automate > > the last step. > > > > One possible option is to create a script, that sets the > > max_bytes/files > > limits after folder creation but that seems hack-y. > > > > To re-iterate, is there a way to automatically set quota limits on a > > CephFS > > directory? > > > > Best regards > > Artur Kerge > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, > with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an > Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336. > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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