Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:34:36 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS) |
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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
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