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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, alan <alan@clueserver.org>,
	"Fao, Sean" <Sean.Fao@dynextechnologies.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>
Subject: Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:34:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040625193436.GC8656@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088165267.8241.7.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com>

On Fri, 25 June 2004 07:07:48 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> Couldn't most of this be done in userspace with xattrs and a "elastic
> quota" daemon?  Mark such files as elastic with an xattr, and when space
> is needed for user N, the daemon comes along and deletes the marked
> files.  You could even make the deamon semi-smart and take things such
> as filesize, least recently used files, etc into account.
> 
> Or maybe I am missing something...

"when space is needed" is hard to detect for the daemon.

Jörn

-- 
To my face you have the audacity to advise me to become a thief - the worst
kind of thief that is conceivable, a thief of spiritual things, a thief of
ideas! It is insufferable, intolerable!
-- M. Binet in Scarabouche

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-25 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-23 15:53 Amit Gud
2004-06-23 17:53 ` Mark Watts
     [not found]   ` <1088016048.15211.10.camel@sage.kitchen>
2004-06-24  9:28     ` Amit Gud
2004-06-24 11:50       ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-06-24 14:04         ` Sam Elstob
2004-06-24 13:51           ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-06-24 14:17         ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-24 19:58           ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-24 20:28             ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-24 20:30             ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-24 21:30             ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-24 20:51               ` alan
2004-06-24 22:03                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-24 23:07                   ` alan
2004-06-25  0:15                     ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 11:57                       ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-25 12:07                       ` Josh Boyer
2004-06-25 19:34                         ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2004-06-25 17:37                       ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-25 18:44                         ` Amit Gud
2004-06-26 12:00                           ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-25 19:09                         ` Amit Gud
2004-06-30 13:02                         ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-06-25  7:52                   ` Lionel Bouton
2004-06-27 18:18                     ` V13
2004-06-27 19:42                       ` Lionel Bouton
2004-06-28 15:34                         ` Amit Gud
2004-06-25  3:04       ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-23 20:37 ` Rik van Riel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-25 14:02 Amit Gud
2004-06-25 14:23 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-25 14:44 ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-25 16:25   ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 16:44     ` Alan
2004-06-25 17:35       ` Amit Gud
2004-06-25 20:22         ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-25 23:50           ` Kevin Fox
2004-06-26  4:03           ` Amit Gud
2004-06-26 21:36             ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-26 23:16               ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-06-27  1:44                 ` Fao, Sean
2004-06-28 13:43                 ` Rob Couto
2004-06-25 21:36         ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 17:07     ` Horst von Brand
2004-06-25 18:44       ` Amit Gud
2004-06-25 21:44       ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-23 15:48 gud

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