Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:35:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:35:30 -0400 Received: from chac.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.19.54]:26126 "EHLO chac.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:35:20 -0400 Message-Id: <200110190014.f9J0Ej7T016629@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> To: James Sutherland , Ben Greear , Neil Brown , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2) In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Fedyk of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:56:36 PDT." <20011018155636.B2467@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:14:45 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Fedyk said: > Lets say that you have about 50GB of space, but you only want to allow 20GB > for a certain tree (possibly mp3s), and you want to keep user ownerships of > the files they contribute. Then they just copy the mp3's wherever they want, and symlink them into the tree. No (meaningful) charge. BTW, you get (almost exactly) the same effect by mounting a partition of 20Gb under /mp3 -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - 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/