Nested Default quotas

[Paul Letta]

Hello,

I’m trying to setup some nested default quotas.  I’ve got:

/ifs/group/g1

/ifs/group/g2

/ifs/group/g3

/ifs/group/g4

# isi quota quotas list --type=default-directory

Type              AppliesTo  Path        Snap  Hard   Soft  Adv  Used  Efficiency

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default-directory DEFAULT    /ifs/group  No    50.00G -     -    0.00  -

Which gives all directories under /ifs/group the default quota of 50G.  Works well.

I also want to have a default-user quota under each group directory.

So user1, user2, etc.. all have their own default quotas under /ifs/group/g1

And another, separate default quota under each of the other directories (g2, g3, g4).

So user1’s files in g1 do not count towards user1’s quota in g2…

I need to specify something like  --type=default-user –path=/ifs/group/*    (so that each directory gets its own user quota universe).

I could use:

# isi quota quotas create --type=default-user --path=/ifs/group/g1 --hard-threshold=10G

# isi quota quotas create --type=default-user --path=/ifs/group/g2 --hard-threshold=10G

# isi quota quotas create --type=default-user --path=/ifs/group/g3 --hard-threshold=10G

...  

But that is a manual step to be done each time a new directory is created  (g4, g5, g250 .. etc).  I’m trying to avoid that and let OneFS’s default quotas do the job.

Any help out there?

Thanks!

[Peter Serocka]

Seems like DellEMC have opened Pandora's Box with default-directory quotas, as quotas can be defined for to-be-created directories. Makes perfect sense to me to also have default-user quotas work in the same way, pre-specified for upcoming directories. Conceptually, that would require a new quota type, like "default-directory-user" -- you might want to reach out to DellEMC for a feature or enhancement request. 

In the meantime, why not put all steps for creating a new group folder (creation, ownership, permissions, export/share, snapshots, backups, and quotas) into a single script in order to save some "manual" work?

fwiw

-- Peter

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