Sorry to have taken so long to summarize this.
I guess a lot of folks are not using soft limits because I only really heard
from Dr. Tom Blinn. He kindly forwarded my questions on to engineering who were
able to tell me what I had been leaving out.
edquota -tg should be used. I had tried using -u but not -g.
I wish that there were easier ways to monitor exceeding soft limits. I guess
that tools to do this will be available in 5.0
Thanks again to Tom Blinn.
Bobbi
bobbi_at_exchange.nih.gov
I neglected to specify the version of the Operating System that we are running.
The testing below was done w 4.0d patch kit 3.
Thanks,
Bobbi
-----Original Message-----
From: Spitzberg, Bobbi (CIT)
Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 5:24 PM
To: 'alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov'
Subject: AdvFS Soft Limits and grace period
Since I found the documentation on grace periods and soft limits unclear, I have
experimented extensively with these. No matter what I do, the grace period
always shows up (when it shows up) as 7 days when I do a showfsets.
I have used edquota -t to set the grace period. I have tried it without setting
user quota and with setting user quota. I have turned quotas on with quotaon
for the file set I am testing with. The grace period is my test interval when I
do an edquota, but is 7 days or blank with a showfsets.
Even with a 3 second grace period set by edquota, I am able to write to the
fileset beyond the soft limit. I guess this is because the grace period is
still assumed to be 7 days.
How can I set a grace period different from 7 days? Is it possible to set soft
limits for free space alerts, but allow files to be written to the fileset?
Thanks,
Bobbi Spitzberg
bobbi_at_exchange.nih.gov
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 12:48:31 NZDT