Yeah. I meant the same. I want to restrict a directory which is owned by a particular user.
Thanks Pallavi -----Original Message----- From: Allen Wittenauer [mailto:a...@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:18 PM To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Restricting quota for users in HDFS 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."
