Jail Quotas - quota.user hard link

[Charles Sprickman]

Hello all,

I have a question about using quotas in a jail with FreeBSD 6.x.  So far I have 
had no problems on a test box with setting quotas from the host using a numeric 
UID (ie: edquota -u 20000 where UID 20000 is a user that only exists in a 
jail).  That seems to "just work".

The problem comes when I want the jailed users to be able to see what their 
current usage is.  I have a few jails on one partition, so the problem is that 
the quota.user file is outside the jail.  Making a hard link to 
/jails/quota.user from /jails/jailX/quota.user starts to solve the problem.

Only one jail actually needs this capability.  Is there any problem with this 
technique of making a hard link to the real quota.user?

One other note...  I do null mount ports into two jails from another jail that 
is used strictly for package building (all on the same filesystem). Are there 
any weird nullfs/quota interactions to be aware of?

Thanks,

Charles
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Charles Sprickman
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