Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:22:07PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> I described this case to the working group last week, because it hit
> us in production this winter.  Somebody screwed up and suddenly
> pushed 2 extra copies of the whole website to everybody's VM.  The
> website is mostly metadata, because of the inline extents, so it
> exhausted everybody's metadata space.  Tens of thousands of machines
> affected.  Of those machines I had to hand boot and run balance on
> ~20 of them to get them back.  The rest could run balance from the
> automation and recover cleanly.

Is there a way to mitigate this by reserving space or setting quotas? Users
running out of space on their laptops because:

* they downloaded a lot of media
* they created huge vms
* some sort of horrible log thing gone awry

are pretty common in both a) my anecdotal experience helping people
professionally and personally and b) um, me.


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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