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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2008-08-13 02:08:39 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-08-13 03:07:27 +0400
commit866c36637f79506b283a6872a7c313b5ef499985 (patch)
tree6c1c73a46dc25ae7ffcafe8be2dd908204379169 /Documentation/filesystems
parentcaff3a2c333e11a794308bd9a875a09b94fee24a (diff)
downloadlinux-866c36637f79506b283a6872a7c313b5ef499985.tar.xz
quota: documentation for sending "below quota" messages via netlink and tiny doc update
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt
index a590c4093eff..5e8de25bf0f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ Quota subsystem
===============
Quota subsystem allows system administrator to set limits on used space and
-number of used inodes (inode is a filesystem structure which is associated
-with each file or directory) for users and/or groups. For both used space and
-number of used inodes there are actually two limits. The first one is called
-softlimit and the second one hardlimit. An user can never exceed a hardlimit
-for any resource. User is allowed to exceed softlimit but only for limited
-period of time. This period is called "grace period" or "grace time". When
-grace time is over, user is not able to allocate more space/inodes until he
-frees enough of them to get below softlimit.
+number of used inodes (inode is a filesystem structure which is associated with
+each file or directory) for users and/or groups. For both used space and number
+of used inodes there are actually two limits. The first one is called softlimit
+and the second one hardlimit. An user can never exceed a hardlimit for any
+resource (unless he has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability). User is allowed to exceed
+softlimit but only for limited period of time. This period is called "grace
+period" or "grace time". When grace time is over, user is not able to allocate
+more space/inodes until he frees enough of them to get below softlimit.
Quota limits (and amount of grace time) are set independently for each
filesystem.
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ in parentheses):
QUOTA_NL_BSOFTLONGWARN - space (block) softlimit is exceeded
longer than given grace period.
QUOTA_NL_BSOFTWARN - space (block) softlimit
+ - four warnings are also defined for the event when user stops
+ exceeding some limit:
+ QUOTA_NL_IHARDBELOW - inode hardlimit
+ QUOTA_NL_ISOFTBELOW - inode softlimit
+ QUOTA_NL_BHARDBELOW - space (block) hardlimit
+ QUOTA_NL_BSOFTBELOW - space (block) softlimit
QUOTA_NL_A_DEV_MAJOR (u32)
- major number of a device with the affected filesystem
QUOTA_NL_A_DEV_MINOR (u32)