Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Ed Plese
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:09:35AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > No, but this is a known issue. See: > > 6431277 want filesystem-only quotas > > - Eric > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:58:25AM -0500, Ed Plese wrote: > > It seems by design that ZFS counts the space used by snapshots towards > > the filesystem quotas. I can see many cases where this would be the > > desired behavior, but for the common case of using one filesystem per > > user home directory in combination with quotas and snapshots, this > > doesn't seem to work too well. > > > > If the user hits their quota, there seems to be no way for the user to > > recover space assuming the fairly common case where they have one or > > more snapshots from while their filesystem was fairly full. Instead > > they'd need to have an administrator either increase their quota (which > > seems to defeat the purpose of the quotas), or destroy all of their > > snapshots (which seems to defeat the purpose of using the snapshots for > > any sort of backup mechanism). > > > > Is there any way to work around this with the quota and snapshot > > mechanisms built into ZFS? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ed Plese > > > > _______________________________________________ > > zfs-discuss mailing list > > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > -- > Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
