Re: [Gluster-devel] Improvements in Quota Translator

[Brian Foster]

On 04/10/2013 03:06 PM, Anand Avati wrote:
> 
> On Apr 10, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Jeff Darcy <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Since XFS doesn't allow hard links across directory tree quota 
>>> boundaries - we get EXDEV, it would prevent gluster from creation 
>>> ".glusterfs" directory entries. So Gluster quota does both accounting
>>> and enforcing of quota.
>>
>> Well, that's certainly an unfortunate consequence of using links instead
>> of a log to track dirty files.  :(  One more reason to undo that damage,
>> I suppose, but that's a different thread.
> 
> The problem here is with the gfid hard links (for providing stable file 
> handles). Index uses hard links from an internal backing file which is also 
> created within .glusterfs - the actual dirty files are never linked into 
> index. While we do want to make index use a different format, it is 
> completely unrelated (in fact not a problem at all) to the XFS quota issue - 
> which is linking of true files into .glusterfs for providing stable file 
> handles.
> 

I went looking into this behavior because I don't recall running into it
before. I can reproduce EXDEV if I try link from project quota A to
project quota B but it looks like this only enforced when the target
directory has project quota inheritance enabled (to prevent writing a
file somewhere and linking it into a directory under quota, XFS enforces
that the project quota IDs must match).

I can create a file under a project quota and link it out of the project
quota subtree without an error. So you could create a file under a
project quota and link it under .glusterfs, but not vice versa and not
into another directory covered by a project quota.

Brian

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