Who's paying for this bandwith? N.
On 4/24/13, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:07:05 +0100, Stroller wrote: > >> > That only works on small systems. I have systems here where a 'du' on >> > /home would take hours and produce massive IO wait, because there's so >> > much data in there. >> >> Of course. Excuse me. >> >> My original idea was in respect of the previous respondent's desire to >> offer hard limits of a gigabyte - allocating each user a partition and >> running `du`, which returns immediately, on it. > > I said "by the gigabyte" not "of a gigabyte", a user could have hundreds > of them. > >> I don't understand how a hard limit could be enforced if it's >> impractical to assess the size of used data. > > Because the filesystem keeps track of the usage, just like it does for > the whole filesystem, which is why "df ." is so much faster than > "du .". ZFS does this too, it just doesn't have a concept of a soft limit. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. >
