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ifcho on Sept 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understanding Disk Usage in Linux

Project quotas appear to be more similar to cgroups. They are available in xfs and ext4 https://lwn.net/Articles/623835/

cat199 on Sept 27, 2019 [–]

The traditional 4.2BSD-style quotas (1983!) on linux also support quotas on unix groups. Not sure if you had this in mind, but anyway.

I suppose project quotas as outlined here would allow multi-group support though.

Another option could be sparsely-provisioned COW LVM volumes.

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