[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-docs] Add subchapter about ACLs, and make even more clear what quotas are about
Emmanuel Kasper
e.kasper at proxmox.com
Mon Apr 11 17:22:57 CEST 2016
Some users thinks quotas relate to the amount of diskspace used for the
mountpoint as the whole.
---
pct.adoc | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pct.adoc b/pct.adoc
index 82f257b..cd817dd 100644
--- a/pct.adoc
+++ b/pct.adoc
@@ -401,6 +401,8 @@ Similarly device mounts are not managed by the storage, but for these the
Using quotas inside containers
------------------------------
+Quotas allow to limit inside a container the amount of disk space that each
+user can to use.
This only works on ext4 image based storage types and currently does not work
with unprivileged containers.
@@ -418,6 +420,15 @@ for every mountpoint by passing the mountpoint's path instead of just `/`.) Best
see the documentation specific to the distributiont running inside the
container.
+Using ACLs inside containers
+----------------------------
+
+The standard Posix Access Control Lists are also available inside containers.
+ACLs allow you to set more detailed file ownership than the traditional user/
+group/rest of the world model.
+Please be aware that NFS do not store ACLs, so if you plan to do snapshots and
+restores from a container to a NFS storage, it is advised to disable ACLs
+in the options of your container mountpoint to avoid bad surprises later.
Container Advantages
--------------------
--
2.1.4
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