Turning quotas on and off

How turning quotas on and off affects vfilers

You can turn quotas on and off on a per-volume basis for a vfiler. After you turn quotas on for a particular volume, Data ONTAP initializes quotas for the storage units residing on the volume, which are owned by the vfiler.

Who can turn quotas on and off?

Hosting filer administrators and vfiler administrators can turn quotas on and off for a volume as long as they own some storage space in the volume. For example, from the hosting filer, you can turn quotas on for the /vol/vol1 volume if vfiler0, which is the hosting filer, owns some storage space in the volume.

You can turn quotas on and off for a volume from a vfiler regardless of how the quota status for that volume is set from other vfilers, including vfiler0. For example, if vfiler1 owns the /vol/vol1/qtree1 qtree and the hosting filer owns the rest of the /vol/vol1 volume, you can turn quotas on and off from vfiler1 for the volume regardless of whether the hosting filer has quotas on or off for the same volume.

Prerequisite for turning quotas on and off

On a filer licensed for vfilers, you must enable quotas for a volume before you can turn quotas on and off for the volume. By default, quotas are enabled on all volumes.

Only hosting filer administrators can enable or disable quotas for a volume.

Effects of disabling quotas

Disabling quotas on a volume has these effects on all vfilers that have storage units in the volume:

If quotas are currently off, you or the vfiler administrator cannot turn quotas on for that volume.
If quotas are currently on, they are turned off immediately and they cannot be turned on.

Enabling or disabling quotas for a volume

To enable or disable quotas for a volume, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: quota allow \| disallow volume Result After you enter the `quota allow` command, you can turn on quotas for the specified volume from a vfiler. After you enter the `quota disallow` command, vfilers are prevented from turning quotas on for the specified volume. If currently there are vfilers that have quotas on for the volume, quotas are turned off immediately for those vfilers.

Step

Action

Enter the following command:

quota allow | disallow volume

Result

After you enter the quota allow command, you can turn on quotas for the specified volume from a vfiler.

After you enter the quota disallow command, vfilers are prevented from turning quotas on for the specified volume. If currently there are vfilers that have quotas on for the volume, quotas are turned off immediately for those vfilers.

Turning quotas on or off from a vfiler

To turn quotas on or off for a volume from a vfiler, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	If you manage the vfiler from...	Then...
The hosting filer	Enter the following command: vfiler run vfilertemplate quota on \| off volume
The vfiler	Enter the following command through an rsh connection to the vfiler: quota on \| off volume

Step

Action

If you manage the vfiler from...

Then...

The hosting filer

Enter the following command:

vfiler run vfilertemplate quota on | 
off volume

The vfiler

Enter the following command through an rsh connection to the vfiler:

quota on | off volume