container disk quota

[Kirill Korotaev]

On Jun 3, 2012, at 08:23 , Jeff Liu wrote:

> Hi Kirill,
> 
> On 06/02/2012 11:21 PM, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not having looked closely at the original patchset, let me ask - is this
>>>>>> feature going to be a freebie with Eric's usernamespace patches?
>>>>> 
>>>>> It we can reach a consensus to bind quota on mount namespace for
>>>>> container or other things maybe.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. OpenVZ doesn't use mount namespaces and still has quotas per container.
>>> 
>>> AFAICS, OpenVZ has self-released quota tools to supply this feature.
>> 
>> but standard quota tools work inside container w/o any modifications.
>> This is very important for us, cause we run unmodified distros inside.
> 
> Yes, am agree.
> I can work out a new patches regarding quota tools based on mount namespace w/o any modification.

Jeff, why do you need fs namespace for quotas? OpenVZ works w/o it.
It sounds as too strict use case limitation. Or do I understand your patchset description wrong?

Thanks,
Kirill