Applies to
Data ONTAP Quotas
Answer
There are three type of quotas, Tree, User and Group. Data ONTAP does not apply Group quotas for Windows IDs.
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These quotas are governed using the quota rules.
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A quota rule is always specific to a volume.
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Quota rules have no effect until quotas are activated on the volume defined in the quota rule.
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A quota policy is a collection of quota rules for all the volumes of an SVM.
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Quota policies are not shared among SVMs. An SVM can have up to five quota policies, which enable you to have backup copies of quota policies.
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One quota policy is assigned to an SVM at any given time.
Tree quotas, when applied will be reflected in the DF output of the NFS clients and CIFS clients.
Example:
cluster-usa::> version
NetApp Release 8.3.2P7: Mon Oct 03 10:59:56 UTC 2016
cluster-usa::>
cluster-usa::> vol size nfs
vol size: Volume "nfssvm:nfs" has size 50g.
cluster-usa::>
cluster-usa::> qtree show nfs
Vserver Volume Qtree Style Oplocks Status
---------- ------------- ------------ ------------ --------- --------
nfssvm nfs "" unix enable normal
nfssvm nfs unix unix enable normal
3 entries were displayed.
cluster-usa::>
cluster-usa::> quota policy rule show -volume nfs
Vserver: nfssvm Policy: default Volume: nfs
Soft Soft
User Disk Disk Files Files
Type Target Qtree Mapping Limit Limit Limit Limit Threshold
----- -------- ------- ------- -------- ------- ------ ------- ---------
tree unix "" - 1GB - - - -
cluster-usa::>
So we set the tree quota of 1G on a volume of 50G. Now, mount the qtree from the Linux client and check the size:
[root@sj ~]# mount nfssvm:/nfs/unix /mnt
[root@sj ~]#
[root@sj ~]# df -h /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
nfssvm:/nfs/unix 1.0G 0 1.0G 0% /mnt
[root@sj ~]#
User quotas on the other hand, will be reflected only on CIFS mappings (mapped drive size) but not on NFS clients df output.
Example:
cluster-usa::> vol size vol_user
vol size: Volume "nfssvm:vol_user" has size 20g.
cluster-usa::>
cluster-usa::> quota policy rule show -volume vol_user
Vserver: nfssvm Policy: default Volume: vol_user
Soft Soft
User Disk Disk Files Files
Type Target Qtree Mapping Limit Limit Limit Limit Threshold
----- -------- ------- ------- -------- ------- ------ ------- ---------
user 5839 home off 1GB - - - -
user RTP2K8DOM2\jsiva home off 1GB - - - -
2 entries were displayed.
cluster-usa::>
In the above example of 20G volume, a disk quota limit of 1G is set for both Windows user RTP2K8DOM2\jsiva and Unix user ID 5839 for qtree called home.
If the qtree has NTFS security style and if the CIFS user maps the qtree, then the mapped drive will be 1G in size under Windows.
However on UNIX, the NFS mount of the qtree will still show the full size of the volume when a user quota is set.
[root@sj ~]# mount nfssvm:/vol_user/home /home
[root@sj ~]#
[root@sj ~]# df -h /home
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
nfssvm:/vol_user/home
19G 4.5M 19G 1% /home
[root@sj ~]#
As the user 'jsiva (uid 5839) attempts to create data more than 1G allowed quota size, it will fail with the following error:
[root@sj ~]# su - jsiva
bash-4.1$
bash-4.1$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
nfssvm:/vol_user/home
19G 4.5M 19G 1% /home
bash-4.1$
bash-4.1$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/jsiva/myfile bs=10485760 count=120
dd: closing output file `/home/jsiva/myfile': Input/output error
bash-4.1$
And rquota must be enabled on the controller side to check the user quota from the NFS client.
cluster-usa::> vserver nfs modify -vserver nfssvm -rquota enabled
cluster-usa::>
bash-4.1$ quota jsiva
Disk quotas for user jsiva (uid 5839):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
nfssvm:/vol_user/home
1048532 1048576 1048576 2 4294967295 4294967295
bash-4.1$
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