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

[John Kozubik]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Bakul Shah wrote:

> To bring this back on topic, perhaps John Kozubik 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


Thanks - I appreciate this, and am continually impressed by the zfs work
being done on FreeBSD.

However, ZFS on FreeBSD is still experimental, and given the environment
that I am deploying in (see previous post) it is impossible to consider
it.


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