[lxc-users] Limits kind of not working

[Marat Khalili]

On September 12, 2017 7:57:26 PM GMT+03:00, Pavol Cupka <pavol.cupka at gmail.com> wrote:
>ok it works better with if=/dev/urandom probably because of the
>compress=lzo being enabled

It explains a lot:
> limit [options] <size>|none [<qgroupid>] <path>
[...]
>    Options
>
>    -c
>
>        limit amount of data after compression. This is the default, it is currently not possible to turn off this option.
( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-qgroup#SUBCOMMAND )

Obviously /dev/zero compresses to nearly zero (not really due to btrfs on-the-fly compression limitations, but still by much). Now I don't even understand why it limits you in 2GB case.
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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili