Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas
From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Nov 07 2011 - 08:57:56 EST
> Right, rlimit approach guarantees a simple way of dealing with users
> across all tmpfs instances.
Which is almost certainly not what you want to happen. Think about direct
rendering.
For simple stuff tmpfs already supports size/nr_blocks/nr_inodes mount
options so you can mount private resource constrained tmpfs objects
already without kernel changes. No rlimit hacks needed - and rlimit is
the wrong API anyway.
Alan
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