Re: Reading/changing projid of a symlink

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:12:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:08:29AM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> > As I said before, IMHO, I believe the way you are using project quotas is wrong.
> > Project quotas is supposed to be used on a sub-tree based granularity, not on a
> > file based granularity. But again, that's just my opinion.
> 
> That is not true.  The per-file usage was indeed the original use
> case.  The tree quoats implemented using the inheritance were added
> much latter.  They are the common use case now, but that doesn't make
> other use cases wrong.

Thanks for the info. I always thought project quotas were designed for
directory-tree granularity, and user/group quotas as a file-based granularity.
But, out of curiosity, if this is not a stupid question...
If project quotas was initially designed as a per-file usage use case in mind,
what would make it different from group quota for example?

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