On 10/05/97 17:36:18 you wrote:

On 09/05/97 01:40:58 Daniel Quinlan wrote:

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Given these parameters:

• I would like to use quotas to track user disk space usage (but not limit it)

Bruce sirbruce@ix.netcom.com replied:

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Easily done, but there are some caveats.

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2. Some clients can't deal with quotas great thatn 8GB, and

there is currently no option on the filer to limit this (this is filed as a bug), so you'd have to restrict your users to 8GB. If you have any over that, you don't want them in the quota system.

So, you'd want something like:

# Quota Target type disk files # ------------- ----- ---- ----- /newhome tree

•                    user@newhome    8G
  
  

The first line might not even be necessary, but it's worth including just for reference. Hmm, unless it breaks the clients the same way. Maybe the 8G can be omitted from the user entry as well? I don't know, I haven't tried it. The line might also be ncessary for the file to be parsed properly.

What Netapp really needs to do is a default quota report by uid/gid type of command on the filer, to avoid the need to set up quotas to track usage.

Since we have users using more than 8GB, this is a major problem.

Agreed.

What operating systems have the 8 GB limit?

I have no idea. I think both SunOS 4.x and 5.x had problems, but I'm not sure. I would expect that newer OSes would be less likely to have the problem (it's similar to the 2GB disk/partition size issue).

Has there been any work to address these issues?

There was a bug submitted... that's all I know. It should be trivial to implement a clamping option like df_2gb_limit, unless there is something really annoying in the quotad protocol that prevents this.

Will it work without the "8GB" in the user entry?

I don't know.

Bruce