Has anyone else run into this situation?  Does anyone have any solutions other 
than removing snapshots or increasing the quota?  I'd like to put in an RFE to 
reserve some space so files can be removed when users are at their quota.  Any 
thoughts from the ZFS team?

Ben

> We have around 1000 users all with quotas set on
> their ZFS filesystems on Solaris 10 U3.  We take
> snapshots daily and rotate out the week old ones.
> The situation is that some users ignore the advice
> of keeping space used below 80% and keep creating
> large temporary files.  They then try to remove
> files when the space used is 100% and get over quota
> messages.  We then need to remove some or all of
> their snapshots to free space.  Is there anything
> being worked on to keep some space reserved so files
> can be removed when at the quota limit or some other
> solution?  What are other people doing is this
> situation?  We have also set up alternate
> filesystems for users with transient data that we do
> not take snapshots on, but we still have this
>  problem on home directories.
> 
> thanks,
> Ben
 
 
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