Hi, I'm running a Linux system with kernel version 3.18.19. While experimenting with groups quota, I did the following steps: 1. Mounted XFS with both users and groups quota enabled 2. Set user 0 (aka the SuperUser) hard limit to 800000 . I believe that this has the same affect as using xfs_quota limit command with "-d" (i.e. setting the default hard limit for users which don't have their hard limit set explicitly) 3. Set user 2001117 hard limit to 1024000 (I set a different limit than user 0's on purpose, in order to show that the group hard limit was not inherited from this user, but from user 0) 4. Created a 1MB file that is owned by user 2001117 and group 2000514 5. Group 2000514 which previously didn't have any hard limit defined now "inherited" user 0 hard limit of 800000 . See output of xfs_quota below. Thanks, Yaron Before creating the file: ================== root@vsa-0000011e-vc-0:~# xfs_quota -x -c "report -L0 -U 2100000" /export/share_3 User quota on /export/share_3 (/dev/dm-28) Blocks User ID Used Soft Hard Warn/Grace ---------- -------------------------------------------------- #0 0 0 800000 00 [--------] #2001117 0 0 1024000 00 [--------] Group quota on /export/share_3 (/dev/dm-28) Blocks Group ID Used Soft Hard Warn/Grace ---------- -------------------------------------------------- #0 0 0 0 00 [--------] (group 2000514 is not listed since it does not have a hard limit and its quota is not used by any file) After creating the file: ================ root@vsa-0000011e-vc-0:~# xfs_quota -x -c "report -L0 -U 2100000" /export/share_3 User quota on /export/share_3 (/dev/dm-28) Blocks User ID Used Soft Hard Warn/Grace ---------- -------------------------------------------------- #0 0 0 800000 00 [--------] #2001117 1024 0 1024000 00 [--------] Group quota on /export/share_3 (/dev/dm-28) Blocks Group ID Used Soft Hard Warn/Grace ---------- -------------------------------------------------- #0 0 0 0 00 [--------] #2000514 1024 0 800000 00 [--------] <=== This is the problem. It's not clear where this hard limit came from -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html