From: Jan-Marc Pilawa (j.pilawa_at_tu-bs.de)
Date: Thu 08 May 2003 - 14:12:09 BST
What about logical volumes and use these for the vservers. Its not really
something else than files and /dev/loop, but, maybe, someone coming from
other Unixes have a better feeling whith that solution
Best Regards
Jan
Zitat von Luís Miguel Silva <lms_at_ispgaya.pt>:
> That is a very nice approach, but what about real quota (per user) on
> a
> vserver?
>
> The (non'official) patches for quota support are considered unsecure
> and
> unstable.
>
> Does anybody know of a way to add *real* quota support for each
> vserver?
>
> Best regards,
> Luís Silva
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > Mitchell Smith wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am wondering if it is possible to enforce a disk quota on a
> virtual
> >> server?
> >>
> >
> > Don't use a partition in a block device as the vserver's root. Use
> a
> > /dev/loop and mount it prior to starting the vserver.
> >
> > # mount -o loop /vserver-images/vserver1.img /vservers/vserver1
> > # vserver vserver1 start
> >
> > If you need to add 1GB to it:
> >
> > # vserver vserver1 stop
> > # umount /vservers/vserver1
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1000
> > # cat /tmp/1GB >> /vserver-images/vserver1.img
> > # resize2fs /vserver-images/vserver1.img
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nuno Silva
> >
> >> i.e. if I had /home/vservers as a 40 gb partition and I want to
> split
> >> it up between 4 vservers at 10 gb each, can I tell each vserver
> that
> >> it can only use 10 gb of that partition?
> >>
> >> I know I could just partition up the drive that way, but then it
> >> doesn't allow for resizing any of the vservers disk space, say I
> >> wanted to give one 25 gb and shrink the other 3 down to 5 gb, I
> >> couldn't do that with out some major repartitioning.
> >>
> >> Comments very welcome.
> >>
> >> From Mitchell
> >>
> >>