setting quotas from inside a jail

[Charles Sprickman]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Michael R. Wayne wrote:

> 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.

I seemed to knock it out of whack on my first reboot after getting it 
working.  Does checking quotas on boot "break" it?

Thanks,

C

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