[TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?

Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org
Sat Jun 1 06:59:58 AEST 2019



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

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Pete Wright
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