Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266371AbUFZL5z (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 07:57:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267164AbUFZL5z (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 07:57:55 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:13839 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266371AbUFZL5y (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 07:57:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:00:06 +0200 To: Amit Gud Cc: Timothy Miller , Pavel Machek , alan , "Fao, Sean" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS) Message-ID: <20040626120006.GA14609@hh.idb.hist.no> References: <20040624220318.GE20649@elf.ucw.cz> <20040625001545.GI20649@elf.ucw.cz> <40DC62BD.3010607@techsource.com> <40DC72A2.6080600@eth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40DC72A2.6080600@eth.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Helge Hafting Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1221 Lines: 29 On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:14:50AM +0530, Amit Gud wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > > > > >I have a much simpler idea that both implements the EQFS and doesn't > >touch the kernel. > > > >Each user is given a quota which applies to their home directory. > >(This quota is not elastic and if everyone met their quota, everything > >would fit.) In addition, there is another directory or file system > >(could be on the same disk or even the same partition) to which their > >quota doesn't apply AT ALL. Let's call this "scratch" space. > > > I guess the system should be more transparent to the users and their > applications. Here its not convenient to generate .o files or caches in > /scratch/$USER/ . > Symlinks. I mozilla stores a cache in .mozilla/something, then make .mozilla/something a symlink to /scratch/user/.mozilla/something In a big installation, a script can do this for all users as well as similiar tricks for other caching apps. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/