Fwd: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: ZFS user/group quotas & space accounting [PSARC/2009/204 FastTrack timeout 04/08/2009]]

[James Carlson]

Mike Gerdts writes:
> >> Has there been any thought to using a UID resolution mechanism similar
> >> to that used by ps?  That is, if "zfs get ... <dataset>" is run in the
> >> global zone and the dataset is deleted to a non-global zone, display
> >> the UID rather than a possibly mistaken username.
> >
> > That seems like a good idea to me.  You should send that comment to the
> > ARC case record (send an e-mail to psarc-ext at sun.com with
> > "PSARC/2009/204" somewhere in the Subject: header).
> 
> Indeed, that might be a good idea.  I wasn't aware of that convention.
> Though note that this only applies to "zfs userspace" -- we would
> simply say that if the fs is zoned, that implies the -n option.  We
> could also disallow them from doing "zfs get userused at name
> pool/zoned/fs", just make it an error to prevent them from seeing
> something other than what they intended.

It looks like a small thing, but I suggest running that by the TX
team.  On a TX system, the user names to UID mappings are all the
same.

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