[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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