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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt index 0b302a11718a..d7f011ddc150 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt @@ -62,6 +62,18 @@ subdirectories, and a summation of all nested file sizes. This makes the identification of large disk space consumers relatively quick, as no 'du' or similar recursive scan of the file system is required. +Finally, Ceph also allows quotas to be set on any directory in the system. +The quota can restrict the number of bytes or the number of files stored +beneath that point in the directory hierarchy. Quotas can be set using +extended attributes 'ceph.quota.max_files' and 'ceph.quota.max_bytes', eg: + + setfattr -n ceph.quota.max_bytes -v 100000000 /some/dir + getfattr -n ceph.quota.max_bytes /some/dir + +A limitation of the current quotas implementation is that it relies on the +cooperation of the client mounting the file system to stop writers when a +limit is reached. A modified or adversarial client cannot be prevented +from writing as much data as it needs. Mount Syntax ============ @@ -137,6 +149,10 @@ Mount Options noasyncreaddir Do not use the dcache as above for readdir. + noquotadf + Report overall filesystem usage in statfs instead of using the root + directory quota. + More Information ================ |