On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote: [snip]
From my reading the closest you can get to disk space quotas in ZFS is by limiting on a per directory (dataset, mount) basis which is similar but different.
This is the normal type of quota within ZFS. it is applied to a dataset and limits the size of the dataset, such as home/username. You can have as many datasets ("filesystems") as you like (within practical limits), which is probably the way to go in regards to home directories. But another option is zfs set groupquota@groupname=100GB example1/blah zfs set userquota@user1=200MB example1/blah This would be available on the Solaris implementation. I am not 100% certain that this is available under the BSD implementations, even if QUOTA is enabled in your kernel config. In the past.... the BSD implementation of ZFS never seemed to be as stable, functional, or performant as the OpenSolaris/Illumos version. -- -JH