On 6/15/09 11:16 PM, "Palleti, Pallavi" <pallavi.pall...@corp.aol.com>
wrote:
> We have chown command in hadoop dfs to make a particular directory own
> by a person. Do we have something similar to create user with some space
> limit/restrict the disk usage by a particular user?
Quotas are implemented on a per-directory basis, not per-user. There
is no support for "this user can have X space, regardless of where he/she
writes" only "this directory has a limit of X space, regardless of who
writes there."
