Kyle McDonald wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I assume that ZFS quotas are enforced even if the current >>> size and space free is not included in the user visible 'df'. >>> Is that not true? >>> >>> Presumably applications get some unexpected error when the >>> quota limit is hit since the client OS does not know the real >>> amount of space free. >>> >> In my experience, I simply couldn't implement Solaris-level quotas at >> all for ZFS filesystems. >> >> > That's my understanding also. I'm not clear (but I think I can guess) on > the exact difference between reservations, and quotas but from what I > understand ZFS implements it's own 'Tree Quotas' , that limit the space > consumed by a directory and everything below it. It does not > (currently?) support a tradtional unix "User/Group Quotas", where the > space consumed by files owned by a user or group are limited no matter > where in the file system the are located.
Here's a good description of ZFS quotas and reservations: http://blogs.sun.com/markm/category/ZFS We have since added refquota and refreservation, which do not include the space consumed by snapshots. -Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
