[OpenAFS] Questions about namei fileserver partitions sharing 1 filesystem...

John S. Bucy bucy-openafs-info@gloop.org
Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:49:26 -0500


On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:03:12PM -0600, Joshua Johnson wrote:
> All,
> 
> 	I a wondering if there is a way to artificially specify the /vicep 
> 	quota (or max size) when you have multiple namei fileserver partitions 
> sharing the same filesystem.
> 
> 	For example if I have a 150GB filesystem and want to put 5 /vicep 
> partitions /vicep[a-e] on it and wish to have no /vicep partition grow 
> beyond 30GB, can I specify that somewhere?  Also I would like commands like 
> vos partinfo to show/do the right thing.

Not quite the same thing but you could use LVM with a resizable
filesystem.  That would provide the desired isolation without making
you make a static resource allocation decision up-front.



john