Enabling user quota in EFS filesystem

Question

Hi Team, Today i got into big issue of heavy ingestion of data from one of my user as his home directory is placed in the EFS filesystem.  Is there a way how can i set quota for limited 5 GB for each user's folder created in that particular file system so that i need to limit the directory size with in threshold.   Thanks for the support on this

Deeksha · Answer

Setting quotas for individual user directories on Amazon EFS is not natively supported by AWS.

You might need to consider alternative storage solutions that natively support such features. For instance, setting up an NFS server on an EC2 instance with attached EBS volumes could allow you to use Linux's built-in quota management tools. However, this approach comes with additional management overhead and potentially higher costs compared to using EFS.

Riku_Kobayashi · Answer

Hello.

EFS does not have a feature that limits the file size that users upload.  
Therefore, I think there will be a need for a system where you can create your own application and have users upload it from there.  
If you create your own application, you can freely decide the file size.

Enabling user quota in EFS filesystem

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