[Linux-cluster] Quota reporting (for users)

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:44:27PM -0700, Abhijith Das wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > Hello all;
> >
> > Planning to export a GFS2 filesystem via NFS and am using quotas.
> > Everything works fine (users are notified when they exceed quota).
> >
> > Is there a good way to allow users to query what their quota is and how
> > much they're using of it?  Something like "quota -s" with the standard
> > quota tools.
> >
> > I can think of a couple kludgy ways to do this... caching output to a
> > file readable by the user, or a daemon that answers questions regarding
> > quotas from a user initiated command...
> >
> > Maybe there's a better way I just don't know about?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Ray
> >   
> 
> Ray,
> 
> We've been looking at adding support in gfs2 to interact with the
> generic quota tools. This would also mean being able to use rpc.rquotad
> to access nfs quotas. This is the bugzilla that tracks this feature:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298561.

Anything top secret in this bug or could you guys make it public?

> Until we get gfs2 quotas to synchronize with vfs' diskquotas interface,
> the only way to query gfs2 quotas is through the gfs2_quota tool, I'm
> afraid.

Gotcha.  We'll survive without it for now. :-)

Thanks,
Ray