On Jan 3, 2018, at 1:43 AM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:02:13AM -0500, David Shaw wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I wonder if anyone could point me towards any numbers on how much >> of a performance penalty project quotas incur on a write-heavy >> filesystem. The idea being discussed here is putting a project >> quota on the /var/log directory (so pretty write-heavy) > > /var/log is definitely a "mostly write" directory, but I wouldn't > ever classify it as "write heavy". > > Unless you are trying to perform thousands of concurrent writes > and/or log file creation/removal operations every second to > /var/log, then putting a project quota on that directory is not > going to cause you any sort of noticable problem. Excellent. Sounds like I have nothing to worry about. Thanks, David -- 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
