setting quotas from inside a jail

[Michael R. Wayne]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:05:05AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> The subject describes my goal.  I'm aware of the usual caveats - if 
> there's more than one jail, no UID overlap, this will really only work in 
> one jail if all jails are on the same filesystem, etc.
> 
> I found a very, very old post that has an... interesting... technique:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/mpc.lists.freebsd.hackers/msg/2b92fc66ac72efa6?hl=en
> 
> It actually works.  "It" being I suppose the fstab trickery in the jail. 
> I need to test this some more, but it does seem possible to edit quotas 
> inside the jail, which is my basic goal.  I don't want my provisioning box 
> to have to hit the host just to alter quotas in one jail that needs them.
> 
> Just looking for any warnings/caveats about the above and what might be 
> different 6+ years later...

That's my post.  Yes, we still do this.  It still works.  Over time,
sometimes things get out of sync.  If that happens, go to S, shut
off quotas, do a quotacheck, turn them back on.

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