On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:04:51PM +0100, alexander goeres - lieblinx GmbH 
wrote:
> Hello List!
> 
> I'm trying to make the disk-limits work for my vservers to gain some 
> flexibility and ran into a problem: the disk limits seem to be 
> disfunctional.  I wonder if anyone could help me with that ..
> 
> I followed the instructions provided on 
> http://oldwiki.linux-vserver.org/Disk+Limits:
> - created a directory /etc/vservers/test1/dlimit/0
> - in there I created the files space_total with 716800, inode_total
>   with 100000, reserved with 5 and directory with /var/lib/vservers/test
> - I was tagging the files in /var/lib/vservers: chxid -r 
> --xid /var/lib/vservers/test
> 
> When I reduced the space_total to an amount smaller than the actual 
> vserver content "vserver test start" refused to come up, complaining 
> that there is not enough space.
> 
> After adjusting the space, the vserver could be started. Doing a "df -kh" 
> inside the vserver gave:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdv1             700M  579M   87M  88% /
> 
> Until here everything looks fine.
> 
> The error showed, when inside this vserver I succeed doing a:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1M count=1024
> 
> This produced a 1 GB big file inside the vserver that claimed to
> have only 87 MB left.

not that unusal, disk limits are only implemented for
ext2/3/4, reiserfs and jfs for now, so xfs is not
accounted and thus not limited ..

> Are the disk limits functional? 

yes, they are working quite fine for the supported
filesystems ...

> If yes, how are they to be set up?

The setup was simplified with recent tools, which do
now calculate the used space and save/restore the 
current values and limits properly

so what you described should work fine for the
supported filesystems ...

> Any advice is appreciated.
> 
> The vserver-version is a vanilla kernel 2.6.19.2 with vs 2.2.0-rc7. 
> Util-Vserver is 0.30.211 (debian compiled). The vservers' partition
> is a XFS-filesystem mounted with the "tagxid"-option.

as there seems some xfs boom recently, and folks 
start to actually use that filesystem, I'm inclined
to add the missing feature, given that there are a
few folks willing to test that ...

so please let me know if you're interested ...

TIA,
Herbert

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Alexander
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