Re: Quota per directory

[Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:23 -0400, Oisin Feeley wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com> wrote:
> 
> [snip condition which must be true for any quota scheme ;)]
> 
> > > Also broken if you have > 10-20 projects, becomes unmanageable.
> 
> Unmanageable because of the claimed fsck speed issue mentioned by the
> OP or unmanageable because the admin would have to keep track of his
> large number of logical volumes?

Unmanageable because they are too many.
Unmanageable because it is a too rigid policy and you don't even have
soft quotas
Unmanageable because if the needs of some groups change you have to
actually resize file systems to give the more space

It's a hackish mess :)
Group quotas are easier.

Simo.