Jergen Dutch wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any trick that gives the effect of per-directory quotas > without requiring a given user to own the files or be writing to the > files? > > Thanks > JD > You can assign GFS quotas for UIDs or GIDs. In your case, user quotas are clearly out because you can't have users own files. I haven't completely thought through this, but there might be a clumsy way of using group quotas to accomplish what you want... not entirely sure you'd want to do such a thing though :-). Not to mention, this would probably work only with a small number of directories and users and it's going to be difficult to automate it and make it work seamlessly. - 1 group per directory you want to monitor for quota. i.e for each quota-monitored directory 'foo' have a group 'foo-grp' and setup GFS quotas for these groups. - For each such directory 'foo', do 'chgrp foo-grp foo' and 'chmod g+s foo'. (all files and directories in 'foo' created subsequent to this operation will have group 'foo-grp'. You can change the GIDs on the previously existing files of the directory by hand) Oh, and quotas for nested directories probably won't work, not accurately at least. :-) Hey, you asked for tricks :-) and this is what I could come up with. Maybe somebody else would be able come up with a much better idea or throw mine out of the window. Cheers, --Abhi -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
