linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

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Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:58:23 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
Cc:	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

> Right, rlimit approach guarantees a simple way of dealing with users
> across all tmpfs instances.

Which is almost certainly not what you want to happen. Think about direct
rendering.

For simple stuff tmpfs already supports size/nr_blocks/nr_inodes mount
options so you can mount private resource constrained tmpfs objects
already without kernel changes. No rlimit hacks needed - and rlimit is
the wrong API anyway.

Alan

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