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Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

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CHAPTER 9<br />

Configuring Quotas<br />

This chapter describes how to configure quotas and includes the following section:<br />

■<br />

Working with Quotas<br />

9.1 Working with Quotas<br />

Quotas allow a system administrator to limit the amount of disk space a user or<br />

group can use in a directory. Quotas are set by root, and can be specified for<br />

individual users and/or groups. Before a file is written to a partition where quotas<br />

are set, the quota of the creator's group is checked. If a quota exists, then the file size<br />

counts towards the group's quota. If no quota exists, then the owner's user quota is<br />

checked before the file is written. Similarly, inode usage for specific functions can be<br />

controlled if a user over-uses the allocated space.<br />

<strong>Lustre</strong> quota enforcement differs from standard Linux quota support in several<br />

ways:<br />

■ Quotas are administered via the lfs command (post-mount).<br />

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■<br />

■<br />

Quotas are distributed (as <strong>Lustre</strong> is a distributed filesystem), which has several<br />

ramifications.<br />

Quotas are allocated and consumed in a quantized fashion.<br />

Client does not set the usrquota or grpquota options to mount. When a quota<br />

is enabled, it is enabled for all clients of the filesystem and turned on<br />

automatically at mount.<br />

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