On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:31 +0100, Owen Synge wrote:
> 1 We allocate small spaces and reallocate these spaces by VO, with high
> level tools to make this simple.
I haven't been following the entire thread, but would it not be possible
to use an LVM[0] to partition the available physical space into
partitions, one (or more) for each VO?
This would then allow for quotas to be adjusted by resizing the
individual volumes (and the filesystems within). Depending on the
filesystem being used, the volume could even be resized whilst
online.[1]
I accept that this is a suboptimal solution, and that direct quota
support is obviously preferable -- but this may be "good enough" in some
cases for the time being.
Cheers,
David
[0] http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/
[1] http://evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/#expandshrink
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Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
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