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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:53:50 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Organization: Candela Technologies
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Subject: Re: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2)
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Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  In my ongoing effort to provide centralised file storage that I can
>  be proud of, I have put together some code to implement tree quotas.
> 
>  The idea of a tree quota is that the block and inode usage of a file
>  is charged to the (owner of the root of the) tree rather than the
>  owner (or group owner) of the file.
>  This will (I hope) make life easier for me.  There are several
>  reasons that I have documented (see URL below) but a good one is that
>  they are transparent and predictable.  du -s $HOME should *always*
>  match your usage according to "quota".

Err, except maybe when you also own a file in /home/idiot/idiots_unprotected_storage_dir
(This relates not at all to your patch/comments.)

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