Elastic Quota File

System (EQFS)

DepartmentofComputer
D.Y.PatilCollegeofEngg.

AmitGud
NileshChoudhary

Introduction
TypicalNetworkScenario
Differenttypesofuserswithdifferentneeds
Variablequotausage
Notpracticaltosetdifferentquotalimitsforlargenumberof
users
Lossofuserspaceifusersdonotusethequotaallocatedto
themeffectively
Noflexibilty

Some Statistics
At95%ofthetimesalltheusersdon'tuse100%of
theirquota
47%oftheusersuse60%oftheirquota
22%oftheusersuselessthan15%oftheirquota

Source:basedonastudyresultsbyBCCInc.onpopularemailservices

What is EQFS?
EQFSisElasticQuotaFileSystem
EQFS:
Providescontrolledflexibilityforuserstoeffectiveyusemore
thantheallocatedquota
Handlesvariablequotausage
Eliminatestheneedtoassigndifferentquotalimitsforusers
withvariableneeds
Providesdisklimitsforanetworkirrespectiveofanyuser
quota
Postponesdeletionoffilesoncrossingthequotalimit
Extendsthequotalimitonrequirementbyallocatingfree
unuseduserspace

How it works?

10

User2

Free

User1

User1

User2

How it works? Contd...

User1

User2
Free

Elastic
10

User1

User1
10

User2

How it works?

User3

User1
10

10

User2

Elastic

User1

Free
User1

User2

What is EQFS?
EQFSisElasticQuotaFileSystem
EQFS:
Providescontrolledflexibilityforuserstoeffectiveyusemore
thantheallocatedquota
Handlesvariablequotausage
Eliminatestheneedtoassigndifferentquotalimitsforusers
withvariableneeds
Providesdisklimitsforanetworkirrespectiveofanyuser
quota
Postponesdeletionoffilesoncrossingthequotalimit
Extendsthequotalimitonrequirementbyallocatingfree
unuseduserspace

EQFS Operation
Elasticfiles
Whentomakefileselastic
Whenquotaisfullandyouneedadditionalspace

Whathappenswhenafileismadeelastic
Owner'squotaisincreasedbyamountofthatfile'ssize
Thatelasticfilebelongstothesameowner
Theadditionalspaceistakenfromothersunusedspace(0.95)

Whichfilestomakeelastic
Fileswithlessimportance
Temporaryfiles

Riskinvolved
Whenthethresholds(user,disk,group)arereached,theelasticfiles
areacteduponasperthepolicyset(0.05)

Where is EQFS?
EQFSisathinfilesystemlayeraboveVFS
Kernel

EQFS
VFS

Underlying
File
System

EQFS Architecture
KernelSpace

Kernel
module

UserSpace

CharDevice

Mel
VFS

EQFS
Daemon

Rel

DB
(GDBM)

Thresholds
EQFSworksaround3Thresholds
UserThreshold
DiskThreshold
GroupThreshold

Thresholds contd...
USERS

Grouptemp

Group
Staff
Group
thresholds

Groupswith
singleuser

Userthreshold

Group
Student

EQFS Commands
EQFSprovidesfollowingcommandsfortheuser
Melmakeelastic
syntax:#mel<filename><operation>[parameter]
filename:pathtothefile
operation:actiontobetakenonthefile
parameter:destinationincaseofmove&compress
Relremoveelastic
syntax:#rel<filename>
SelShowelastic
syntax:#sel

Benchmarks (using Caldera AIM Independent Resource Suite IX)

WithoutEQFS
CPU(thousandopspersecond)

Short
Int
Long
Float
Double

Add
Div
2354400
29160
2215568
30119
2271768
30708
766800 129000
766800 125400

Mult
346830
394525
375312
432000
461077

Disk/FileSystem/IO(persecond)
Dirsearches
Copy
SeqRead
Create/Close

34950
56945
247048
142300

Kb
Kb
files

Benchmarks (using Caldera AIM Independent Resource Suite IX)

WithEQFS
CPU(thousandopspersecond)

Short
Int
Long
Float
Double

Add
Div
2354308
29605
2215448
30106
2271429
30746
766670 128920
766650 125379

Mult
346826
394522
375309
431969
461075

Disk/FileSystem/IO(persecond)
Dirsearches
Copy
SeqRead
Create/Close

34946
56940
247044
142229

Kb
Kb
files

Advantages

EQFSmaximisestheserverspaceutilization
fortheusers

EQFSmeetsthevariablequotaneeds

Transparentreclaimingmechanism

Avoidtheindividualallocationofquotaforuserswithdifferent
needs,whichisnotpracticalwherethenumberofusersarelarge

Handlesthegroupquotasandkeepstheoverallusagewithin
checkwithoutinternalinterference

Postponesthedeletionoffilesunlessthethresholdisreached

Advantages contd...
EQFSis
Independentoftheunderlyingfilesystem
Workswiththestandardquotasystem(libquota,edquota)
LowCPUusage
Transparenttotheuser

Thank You!
FurtherInfo:eqfs.sourceforge.net

Questions