CentOS - Feb 2015 - xfs_quotas

Hi, folks,

   (The system I'm doing this on is actually RHEL 6.6, but that list is so
quiet....)

   We've got a new RAID box attached to the server. Large. We'd like to
implement xfs quotas... but one thing I can't find is information on
this: we want to export the real directory to /project, and let
automount bind it under there. (/project/hisproj). All I find shows
creating a permanent mount point.

   Is this actually do-able? Can I set the quota on the real location?
(/mnt/drive/project/hisproj, say), and have them work?

        mark

----- Original Message -----
| Hi, folks,
| 
|    (The system I'm doing this on is actually RHEL 6.6, but that list is so
| quiet....)
| 
|    We've got a new RAID box attached to the server. Large. We'd like
to
| implement xfs quotas... but one thing I can't find is information on
| this: we want to export the real directory to /project, and let
| automount bind it under there. (/project/hisproj). All I find shows
| creating a permanent mount point.
| 
|    Is this actually do-able? Can I set the quota on the real location?
| (/mnt/drive/project/hisproj, say), and have them work?
| 
|         mark
| 

XFS quotas are set on the device/filesystem in question, not a particular mount
point.  We use automount to mount filesystems all over the place and XFS quotas
work just fine.

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