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Re: sockets and HAMMER
On 2008-07-05 23:54, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Well, internal hard disks under 100G are getting hard to find, so I doubt
> :this is going to be a huge issue. It should be documented.
> :
> :There's also the possibility that things could be mounted under /, instead
> :of multiple partitions.
>
> Yah. I think what we are moving towards is more of a one or
> two-filesystem model (I think having a separate root is still important),
> but to make it totally practical we need to be able to set overall
> space limits on a per-PFS basis. (PFS == HAMMER's pseudo filesystems).
>
> This won't happen in the first release but it certainly isn't hard
> to accomplish. The advantage of it is that limits applied to PFSs
> are soft and could be adjusted up or down at any time. And since
> we support 65536 PFSs per HAMMER filesystem the whole mechanism could
> be used to soft-partition a huge filesystem for use by different
> machines / departments / users / whatever.
>
> No, no quotas for HAMMER yet :-) I just don't think that stuff belongs
> in the filesystem. We need a generic quota and MAC layer in the kernel
> proper. The MAC layer implemented in FreeBSD is horrible, I think
> we could do a lot better particularly with PFS to rough-cut the
> security domains.
Question: Is there a minimum recommended size of a PFS, or could you
create one per user? While it is not a complete replacement for quota it
would at least solve some of the same problems.
--
Erik Wikström
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