From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f195.google.com ([209.85.128.195]:36724 "EHLO mail-wr0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936183AbeFOI52 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2018 04:57:28 -0400 Received: by mail-wr0-f195.google.com with SMTP id f16-v6so9150483wrm.3 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 01:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:57:24 +0200 From: Carlos Maiolino Subject: Re: Reading/changing projid of a symlink Message-ID: <20180615085724.pkpfpmuas5ujmcbw@odin.usersys.redhat.com> References: <20180612143608.ok3jqtl3l34vdlpy@odin.usersys.redhat.com> <20180613094048.6becmt42cvdhvg66@odin.usersys.redhat.com> <20180615070829.m5ligybzlods4l5r@odin.usersys.redhat.com> <20180615071236.GA17459@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180615071236.GA17459@infradead.org> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ilya Pronin , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:12:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:08:29AM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > > As I said before, IMHO, I believe the way you are using project quotas is wrong. > > Project quotas is supposed to be used on a sub-tree based granularity, not on a > > file based granularity. But again, that's just my opinion. > > That is not true. The per-file usage was indeed the original use > case. The tree quoats implemented using the inheritance were added > much latter. They are the common use case now, but that doesn't make > other use cases wrong. Thanks for the info. I always thought project quotas were designed for directory-tree granularity, and user/group quotas as a file-based granularity. But, out of curiosity, if this is not a stupid question... If project quotas was initially designed as a per-file usage use case in mind, what would make it different from group quota for example? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Carlos