On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:22:07PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
I described this case to the working group last week, because it hit
us in production this winter. Somebody screwed up and suddenly
pushed 2 extra copies of the whole website to everybody's VM. The
website is mostly metadata, because of the inline extents, so it
exhausted everybody's metadata space. Tens of thousands of machines
affected. Of those machines I had to hand boot and run balance on
~20 of them to get them back. The rest could run balance from the
automation and recover cleanly.
Is there a way to mitigate this by reserving space or setting quotas? Users
running out of space on their laptops because:
* they downloaded a lot of media
* they created huge vms
* some sort of horrible log thing gone awry
are pretty common in both a) my anecdotal experience helping people
professionally and personally and b) um, me.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader