User limit & Quota

[tango]

One question, If I create a user (vu2001) and his example 500MB memory allocation, it shall be quota vu2001 not displayed the limit.

Is it installed or not I made a mistake?

Sorry my English is Bad, it was from German to English with google translator translates

[RatS]

We are using a soft quota stored in our database, that's the reason why there is no hard quota shown for the user.

To explain why it is handled like this: I assume - because this is an VHCS relict - that the changes in the boot manager necessary for the use of quota and the unavailability of quota in former linux kernels have been the main reasons for using soft quota.

[tango]

we would do in the future hard quotas change ?

[RatS]

maybe

[cyber2]

Do you made a hard quotas change?
if not - there is my dirty & simple script for set hard quotas

PHP Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

#  Hard quota installer  for CentOs VPS v0.1                 
#  dirty & simple script created by 2lexx@mail.ru 02.08.2009 
#  to check quota  just type in console: repquota -a         


use DBI;

my $host = "localhost";
my $port = "3306";
my $user = "root";
my $pass = "PASSWORD_FOR_MYSQL_ROOT";
my $db = "ispcp";


$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db:$host:$port",$user,$pass);
$sth = $dbh->prepare("select domain_name,domain_uid,domain_disk_limit*1e3 from domain");
$sth->execute;

while ($ref = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref) {
`/usr/sbin/setquota -u vu$$ref[1] 0 $$ref[2] 0 0 /`;
print "Hard quota for user vu$$ref[1],domain $$ref[0] is set to $$ref[2] 1k blocks\n";
}

$rc = $sth->finish;
$rc = $dbh->disconnect; 


I have been crontabbed it and it works ok
Any suggesions?

Sorry my English is Bad, my native language is perl

[MasterTH]

hard quotas are good but not for all users.
vserver often don't have the option to set hard quotas because they use the kernel of the host and theres nothing enabled with quotas.
soft-quotas are not as bad as it looks. i prefer them.

[kilburn]

MasterTH Wrote:soft-quotas are not as bad as it looks. i prefer them.

Me too. My customers would get really angry if their website stops working because it can't create any temporary files anymore due to a hard quota. We know it's his fault, but he won't ever agree...

[WuChEn]

What does it do? Oo
Set quota vor any dir? Oo

Gratz WuChEn