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
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Wiebke [mailto:wiebke@lucent.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:02 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Quotas
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.
Or even better, set all their quotas like this:
* user@/vol/users -
This will track usage, but won't enforce any limits. When you do a quota report, you'll see everyone who is above the limit you want to set and can send them specific e-mail.
-- Jeff
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On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:43:34PM -0500, Francett, Robert D (SAIC) wrote:
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 #quotasfor 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
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Wiebke [mailto:wiebke@lucent.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:02 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Quotas
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.
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Francett, Robert D (SAIC) -
Jeffrey Krueger