> Lustre's current/traditional owner-based quota accounting > is a bit of a drag, but eventually there will be project quotas...
FYI, Project Quotas exist beginning with Lustre 2.10.0. Info is in the Lustre Ops Manual at http://doc.lustre.org/lustre_manual.xhtml#idm140687075905776. -Cory -- On 6/28/18, 10:46 AM, "lustre-discuss on behalf of Mark Hahn" <lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org on behalf of h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > we have different research groups i am thinking to have one filesystem and > beneath it using ACL have project folders . well, the first approach should be to use the normal Unix mechanism: owners and groups. ACLs are usually treated as a way to make exceptions, since owner/group will capture most of the correct sharing relations. after all, there's little harm in seeing lots of names in your /project mount. unless someone botches the permissions, only the right people can can traverse the trees. > Just curious what re the pros/cons of having multiple filesystem vs single > filesystem with folders ? scalability of management. it's not obviously scalable to manage many separate filesystems, but very easy to manage thousands of groups on a single filesystem. > any advice ? unless you have to prevent users from even seeing the existence of other users, just use a single filesystem. Lustre's current/traditional owner-based quota accounting is a bit of a drag, but eventually there will be project quotas... regards, mark hahn _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org