Will - While we are working on it quotas are not supported in Gluster 3.1. We will let you know as soon as we have added that feature. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/08/2010 08:23 AM, Will Daniels wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping to use gluster to create a single unified storage volume > then to be able to assign dynamic storage quotas to users for their home > directory within this distributed storage area. > > I read about creating volume files and spotted the "quota" translator, > which looks like it might help to do what I want. > > But I am using gluster 3.1 and tested out the CLI method to create my > distributed replicated volume. I see where it has written the volume > files under /etc/glusterd/vols but I suspect it would not be the right > way to just start editing the -fuse.vol file there to add a quota volume? > > And anyway, I'm not sure about the right way to go about defining > this...instinctively I would think to add quota volumes "above" the main > distributed replicated volume for each user and then mount those quota > volumes under /home with autofs (or something like that). > > Yet I also think that the chain of the volume/subvolume config should > have perhaps only one volume that is not a subvolume of something else? > In which case I can't have multiple quota volumes on top of the main > distributed storage volume? > > I'm finding it all a bit difficult to understand in terms of where the > config comes from to be honest. If I want to mount volume bar defined on > server foo, it seems I can just use "foo:bar" as the device name in > fstab and it manages to find that OK, but I don't entirely understand > the mechanics of that. Is the fuse client talking to glusterd on server > foo, or something else? Is it only going to look for a dir "bar" under > /etc/glusterd/vols or is it searching all the .vol files for the defined > volume names? And can I define a volume in one file that references a > volume defined in another? Can I have multiple "top" volumes defined in > one file? > > I have tried to read through the documentation, but my head is spinning > a bit and I expect somebody on the list would be able to answer these > questions very easily? Any info would be much appreciated, specifically > in relation to what I want to do with storage quotas. Is it an > appropriate use case for quota? Perhaps there is a better way to arrange > this? > > Cheers! > -Will > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
