[Lustre-discuss] rquota release 2.0

[Andreas Dilger]

On May 23, 2008  15:06 -0700, Jim Garlick wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 03:21:32PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On May 23, 2008  12:48 -0700, Jim Garlick wrote:
> > > Incidentally I put the latest release of the Livermore quota clients
> > > up on sourceforge here: 
> > > 
> > >   http://rquota.sourceforge.net/
> > > 
> > > Basically it's quota and repquota for NFS and Lustre only.  There is
> > > no "local" file system support.
> > > 
> > > A tip of the hat to Nicholas Cardo of LBNL who described LBNL's quota
> > > tool at the 2008 LUG, and got me thinking I should add Lustre support
> > > to our client.
> > 
> > Jim, have you given any thought/effort to integrating the Lustre & NFS
> > ability with the "local" quota/quotactl/repquota tools as packaged in
> > the upstream "quota" RPM?
> 
> No I haven't, but it ought to be straightforward.  
> 
> We could also consider adding local quota capability and quotactl to ours,
> making it a true drop-in replacement if there is a benefit in doing so.

I'm just thinking that since both LLNL and NERSC have added Lustre quota
capability to their own tools, others might want/need to do the same and
having it in the upstream package avoids this need altogether.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.