On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:58 PM Sebert, Holger.ext
<Holger.Sebert.ext@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On my system I use OverlayFS. The overlay filesystem is mounted as
> follows:
>
> mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=${ROMOUNT},upperdir=${UPPER_DIR},workdir=${WORK_DIR} ${NEWROOT}
>
> with the variables ROMOUNT, UPPER_DIR, WORK_DIR and NEWROOT pointing
> to the relevant directories.
>
> I tried to activate quota by adding the mount options 'usrquota' and
> 'grpquota' to the above mount command as follows:
>
> mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=${ROMOUNT},upperdir=${UPPER_DIR},workdir=${WORK_DIR},usrquota,grpquota ${NEWROOT}
>
> While I don't get an error,
That's odd. Which kernel/distro are you using?
> the quota tools report that quota isn't
> activated on the (overlay-)filesystem containing the r/w uppder dir.
>
> This makes me wonder whether quotas are actually supported by OverlayFS?
>
No they are not supported.
Thanks,
Amir.
