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This setting is relevant when using soft quotas and being able to see the quota as configured and not seeing the capacity of the cluster as quoted space. However, this setting makes sense when soft quota enforcement is setup with a small grace period.
Under very heavy load where the write workload is consistently hitting the quota limits, using hard quotas may impact cluster performance.
Use the below command to check the current value:
sysctl efs.quota.soft_containers
Note: The default may be a different value based on the OneFS version.
The value of 1 is recommended for this setting. In conjunction with this setting, the recommended way to setup quotas is to use soft quotas with a short grace period of a few seconds instead of hard quotas.
sysctl efs.quota.soft_containers=1