Re: [vserver] quotaing

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From: Jacques Gelinas (jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 06:33:31 EDT


On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:07:00 -0500, Paul Sladen wrote
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Peter Kwan Chan wrote:
>
> > Also, is quota support in the development agenda?
>
> Quota works fine if each vserver is mounted on a different LVM share, or
> loopback filesystem.

Yes but there is another issue. You may want to limit quota per user in
a vserver and allow the vserver administrator to handle it. To handle quota
he needs access to the block device and this opens a security issue.

> I'm don't know (like with the binding-to-every-IP option) whether it is
> really practical in the tradeoff for time spent implementing it.
>
> Somebody will probably say something if this is /not/ the case.

Future will tell. Maybe it will be really needed for general vserver acceptance.
For now, no big priority.

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