Robert,
You'll get the 'disk quota exceeded' message on the
filer when the user attempts write & the write will
fail.
What you might consider, to make life easier all
around, is a blanket message to your users, if that's feasible, and request the
users clean house prior to the quotas invocation. Then identify the users who
ignored your request and add them to your quotas file at, or slightly above,
their current use. After they've responded and cleaned-up below the quota,
remove the special entries.
Example (quota entries for user home
directories):
/vol/users
tree 50G
500K #user volume
*
user@/vol/users 100M
3K #quotas for all
users
joe
user@/vol/users 1500K
3K #transgressor
beth user@/vol/users
2600K 4K #transgressor
Of course, this path of action is much easier if most
users clean-up below the intended quotas.
Regards,
Bob Francett
BP Exploration Alaska
We're looking to
retroactively implement a 100mb quota on most of our users. Many of
these users are are above 100mb at the moment. My question is how does
Filer treat a new quota if the user is already above the specified
quota?
Will it fail, or
just not allow any more writes to disk? I looked on the NOW site but I
could not seem to find an answer to this question.
Thanks in
advance.