Lamont Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 02:14am, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > > Coming from a systems administration background, I was very surprised to > > find out that fedora (well Linux actually) doesn't have a per directory > > quota. It is very common and needed IMHO to have a quota per directory, as > > the directory basically represents a project some people are working on. > > One would want to make sure that a certain project would not consume all > > disk space. Only XFS seemed to have per "project" quota (I even think the > > Linux implementation doesn't have that!) > > Linux "only" has per-filesystem quota support. You're asking for what's > called "tree quotas" support. And that is nonsense, as a file /doesn't/ exist "in a directory", the directory only holds the name and a reference to the actual file. So, a file can exist under many different names in assorted directories (hard links). How do you acount for that? Can't count it N times if there are N links, but if you count each link 1/N, deleting stuff here may get you past quota elsewhere (even other people who happen to link to the same file). Not nice. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
