Actually, this is well described in the config option's documentation. As of today:
cfg.StrOpt('user_storage_quota', default='0', help=_("Set a system wide quota for every user. This value is " "the total capacity that a user can use across " "all storage systems. A value of 0 means unlimited." "Optional unit can be specified for the value. Accepted " "units are B, KB, MB, GB and TB representing " "Bytes, KiloBytes, MegaBytes, GigaBytes and TeraBytes " "respectively. If no unit is specified then Bytes is " "assumed. Note that there should not be any space " "between value and unit and units are case sensitive.")), ** Changed in: glance Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: glance Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to Glance. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1469738 Title: The operation of create image has failed with not enough free quota storage although sufficient space was available Status in OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance): Invalid Bug description: Description of problem: Creating an image has failed with error message:"Denying attempt to upload image because it exceeds the quota", although there was enough space for upload the image Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-glanceclient-0.17.0-2.el7ost.noarch python-glance-2015.1.0-6.el7ost.noarch python-glance-store-0.4.0-1.el7ost.noarch openstack-glance-2015.1.0-6.el7ost.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: With only cirros image(size=12.6MB) run those steps 1. Edit /etc/glance/glance-api.conf set user_storage_quota =1536000 2. openstack-service restart glance 3. Try to upload an image less than 1536000MB Actual results: Failed with 'Denying attempt to upload image because it exceeds the quota' Expected results: Creating an image should succeed Additional info: It is similar to bug id=1043929 Glance logs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1469738/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp