From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 54e3ec03 for ; Fri, 31 May 2019 21:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 61E139B866; Sat, 1 Jun 2019 07:07:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC249B681; Sat, 1 Jun 2019 07:06:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 56D359B681; Sat, 1 Jun 2019 07:06:40 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:06:40 AEST Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DD599B680 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2019 07:06:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [192.168.1.206] (cpe-23-243-162-239.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.162.239]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 4d9e820f TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Fri, 31 May 2019 20:59:59 +0000 (UTC) To: Grant Taylor , tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org> <78485efd-2cd3-a290-8142-48672bb847c5@nomadlogic.org> <8d220e00-c908-5e3c-48d1-927790385ca0@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <37bb9b7a-518d-9d7f-5c63-ee12346885d2@nomadlogic.org> Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:59:58 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8d220e00-c908-5e3c-48d1-927790385ca0@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 5/31/19 1:43 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: > On 5/31/19 1:07 PM, Pete Wright wrote: >> An individual user was given something like 1GB by default (here they >> had their mailbox, source-code, scripts etc), then the show they were >> booked on was then given an allocation of say 1TB of storage. > > It sounds like you are talking about group quotas in addition to each > individual user's /user/ quota.  Is that correct?  Or was this more an > imposed file system limit in lieu of group quotas? it was a mix, $HOME was tied to a specific UID. for show data we leveraged per-volume quotas.  our directory structure was setup in such a way that a a path would be a series of symlinks pointing for specific NFS volumes.  so /shot/sequence/render for example could reference multiple volumes. /shot/sequence would live on a separate filer than "render".  we could also move around where "render" would live and not have to worry about creating orphan paths and such.  this was a common practice to manage hotspots, or for maint windows etc. the net result was we used a mix of volume quotas that netapp managed in addition to higher level shot/show quotas which were calculated out of band by some in-house services. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA