On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:18:40 -0700, Neil Perrin <neil.per...@sun.com> wrote:
>I vaguely remember a time when UFS had limits to prevent >ordinary users from consuming past a certain limit, allowing >only the super-user to use it. Not that I'm advocating that >approach for ZFS. I know that approach from other operating systems, like Fujitsu Siemens BS2000/OSD. There it is called "zip space" and specified in number of 2 kB disk pages. It isn't meant to prevent corruption (user processes were simple frozen until the requested disk space allocation could be completed), but only to allow the super-user to log in on an otherwise completely stuck system, and very useful as such. Typically, 24 pages in the super-users' home file system (AKA public volume set) would be enough. -- ( Kees Nuyt ) c[_] _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
