It's 2008. 1 TB disk drives cost $160. Quotas are 32-bit.

[Wes Morgan]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Bakul Shah wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:02:54 +0200 Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:59:31AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
>>> To bring this back on topic, perhaps John Kobuzik can just
>>> use the zfs since it already has quota support? For example,
>>>
>>> # zfs create z/foo
>>> # zfs quota=10M z/foo
>>> dd < /dev/zero bs=1M count=20 > /z/foo/xx
>>> dd: stdout: Disc quota exceeded
>>> 11+0 records in
>>> 10+0 records out
>>> 10485760 bytes transferred in 4.718700 secs (2222171 bytes/sec)
>>> # zfs set quota=10T z/foo
>>> # zfs get quota z/foo
>>> NAME   PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
>>> z/foo  quota     10T    local
>>
>> This is basicly what the partition size is for normal filesystems,
>> with the great ability of course to change it cheaply at any time.
>> But this is in no way a per user quota in the way ufs does.
>
> It is not the same but can serve a similer purpose if each
> user gets his own filesystem (and yes, I am aware of the
> rebooting issue with zfs with thousands of filesystems).  He
> wanted support for 2TB+ quota on ufs by July 20.  If that
> doesn't happen at least he can limp along with this.

On a totally spurrious note, I'd love to know the storage environment 
where a 1 TB quota on a multi-user system is meaningful. If I truly need 
that much space as a user, and I hit your quota limit, I'll probably be a
very, very unhappy user!