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The main processes or daemons associated with SmartQuotas are:
The job of the notification daemon, isi_quota_notify_d, is to listen for “limit exceeded” and “link denied” events and generate notifications for each. The notification daemon also responds to configuration change events and instructs the QDB to generate “expired” and “violated” over-threshold notifications.
A quota sweeper daemon, isi_quota_sweeper_d, is responsible for several quota housekeeping tasks, such as propagating default changes, collecting domain and notification rule garbage, and initiating QuotaScan jobs when necessary.
Finally, the reporting daemon, isi_quota_report_d, is responsible for generating quota reports. Since the QDB produces only real-time resource usage, reports are necessary for providing point-in-time views of a quota domain’s usage. These historical reports are useful for trend analysis of quota resource usage.
OneFS 8.2 and later versions also include the rpc.quotad service to facilitate client-side quota reporting on UNIX and Linux clients using native quota tools. The service, which runs on tcp/udp port 762, is enabled by default, and control is under NFS global settings.
Also, in OneFS 8.2 and later, users can view their available user capacity set by the soft or hard user and group quotas rather than the entire cluster capacity or parent directory-quotas. The ability to view capacity based on quotas allows users to avoid the illusion of seeing available space that might not be associated with their quotas.