Re: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2)

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 19:14:45 EST

Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> said:
> Lets say that you have about 50GB of space, but you only want to allow 20GB
> for a certain tree (possibly mp3s), and you want to keep user ownerships of
> the files they contribute.

Then they just copy the mp3's wherever they want, and symlink them into
the tree. No (meaningful) charge.

BTW, you get (almost exactly) the same effect by mounting a partition of
20Gb under /mp3 

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