Re: Enforcing quota for root user

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/14 4:32 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:00:25AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/11/2014 04:22 AM, Cyril Scetbon wrote:
>>>> That's what I've read first, but someone showed me a sample where it 
>>>> works. He just told me he was using project quota. However, does it make 
>>>> sense ? 
>>>> I've also read somewhere else that quota is never enforced for root user 
>>>> (id,gid=0) that's why I was testing it ....
>>>
>>> No, it doesn't make sense.  Why would you want to enforce quotas for root?
>>
>> A week ago I tried this and project quotas appear to apply to root.
> 
> By intent and design. Project quotas are not a user/group based
> quota and so there is no exemption for any user.

However, at least according to the manpage, "project ID 0" is not
enforced.  Granted, that is not a *user* exception.

-Eric