[TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Sat Jun 1 06:43:01 AEST 2019


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?

> I was briefly on the team responsible for managing these quotas for a 
> show and it was seriously an around the clock operation to keep our disks 
> from filling up.  One of the tricks was to figure out how much space a 
> rendered sequence of images would consume, factor in the time-to-render 
> a frame and attempt to line up your backup jobs to free up enough space 
> so the render nodes could write out the images to NFS.

Intriguing.

Thank you for sharing.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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