From: Herbert Pötzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Wed 13 Aug 2003 - 18:48:49 BST
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:32:05PM -0400, Matt Ayres wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:28, Herbert Pötzl wrote:
> > Hi Matt!
>
> >
> > hmm, atomics should be 26bit ... maybe a 32bit value
> > guarded by a semaphore or something?
> >
>
> According to the docs they are 32-bit, but only guaranteed useful up to
> 24-bit.
>
> > > I've tried to convince him to change it to 64-bit (I think that
> > > would make it a 1200GB limit) but he seems set on using the atomic
> > > value.
> >
> > you are talking about total vserver disk limit
> > not per user/group disk quotas, are you?
> >
>
> Yes, total vserver disk limit, you are not? :) After reading your post,
> I could see how we could be talking about two different things. I read
> 'per vserver context quota' and assumed it meant a 'context quota'.
no, per vserver uid/gid quota is the current implementation
we had the total context quota a time ago, and decided
to call this vserver "virtual" disk limit ...
this will be in my new patches too as soon as they are stable
and I guess without the limitations described ...
> > best,
> > Herbert
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