On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 04:35:31PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:00:25AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> > >> On Nov 11, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner > >> <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> On 11/11/2014 04:22 AM, Cyril Scetbon wrote: > >>>> That's what I've read first, but someone showed me a sample > >>>> where it works. He just told me he was using project quota. > >>>> However, does it make sense ? I've also read somewhere else > >>>> that quota is never enforced for root user (id,gid=0) that's > >>>> why I was testing it .... > >>> > >>> No, it doesn't make sense. Why would you want to enforce > >>> quotas for root? > >> > >> A week ago I tried this and project quotas appear to apply to > >> root. > > > > By intent and design. Project quotas are not a user/group based > > quota and so there is no exemption for any user. > > It’s what I’d expect. I considered the documentation to be > slightly misleading where is says soft and hard limits are never > applied to the root user. The project quota does have a soft and > hard limit. The soft limit, seemed not to apply to the root user - > at least there was no soft limit warning anywhere when it was > busted. But the hard limit definitely applied. > > http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_User_Guide/tmp/en-US/html/ch08s04.html So write a patch to fix the documentation. Repo is here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsdocs-xml-dev.git Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
