Re: Elastic Quota File System (EQFS)

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 25 June 2004 07:07:48 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> Couldn't most of this be done in userspace with xattrs and a "elastic
> quota" daemon?  Mark such files as elastic with an xattr, and when space
> is needed for user N, the daemon comes along and deletes the marked
> files.  You could even make the deamon semi-smart and take things such
> as filesize, least recently used files, etc into account.
> 
> Or maybe I am missing something...

"when space is needed" is hard to detect for the daemon.

Jörn

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