On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Khimenko Victor wrote:
> > There is small difference: there are disk quotas, but there are NO memory
> > quotas :-( Per-user ones, not per-process ones I mean...
> ---
> Maybe there need to be memory quotas. Dunno. But referring to the
> file system. It is the file doing the write that returns with an error
> code. Not another random process that happened to be using disk space. Also,
> reserving 5% (for root) isn't considered to be a horrible kludge to allow
> for recovery from such situations.
But 5% reservation is not there for recovery from FS full situation.
Ext2 guys should drop a word here, but AFAIK it's mainly for performance
reasons (it was for FFS, where it was introduced the first time: at 95%
many allocation optimizations simpy failed).
>
> -linda
>
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