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On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:07:05 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> > That only works on small systems. I have systems here where a 'du' on |
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> > /home would take hours and produce massive IO wait, because there's so |
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> > much data in there. |
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> Of course. Excuse me. |
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> My original idea was in respect of the previous respondent's desire to |
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> offer hard limits of a gigabyte - allocating each user a partition and |
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> running `du`, which returns immediately, on it. |
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I said "by the gigabyte" not "of a gigabyte", a user could have hundreds |
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of them. |
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> I don't understand how a hard limit could be enforced if it's |
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> impractical to assess the size of used data. |
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Because the filesystem keeps track of the usage, just like it does for |
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the whole filesystem, which is why "df ." is so much faster than |
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"du .". ZFS does this too, it just doesn't have a concept of a soft limit. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. |
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