Re: container disk quota

[Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/03/2012 09:47 AM, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2012, at 08:23 , Jeff Liu wrote:
>
> > Hi Kirill,
> >
> > On 06/02/2012 11:21 PM, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > Not having looked closely at the original patchset, let me ask - is this
> > > > > > > feature going to be a freebie with Eric's usernamespace patches?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It we can reach a consensus to bind quota on mount namespace for
> > > > > > container or other things maybe.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. OpenVZ doesn't use mount namespaces and still has quotas per container.
> > > >
> > > > AFAICS, OpenVZ has self-released quota tools to supply this feature.
> > >
> > > but standard quota tools work inside container w/o any modifications.
> > > This is very important for us, cause we run unmodified distros inside.
> >
> > Yes, am agree.
> > I can work out a new patches regarding quota tools based on mount namespace w/o any modification.
>
> Jeff, why do you need fs namespace for quotas? OpenVZ works w/o it.
> It sounds as too strict use case limitation. Or do I understand your patchset description wrong?

OpenVZ has its own kernel, with its very own isolation capabilities.
So in upstream, something has to be used instead.


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