Patent ID: 7325017
Filing Date: 2008-01-29
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for implementing a data storage quota comprising: a plurality of users associated with a computer system, each user having a unique identifier; a hierarchic file system on top of a data storage device, wherein the hierarchic file system comprises a plurality of files and a plurality of directories; the plurality of files and directories stored on the storage device and arranged into a plurality of trees, wherein each file and each directory has at least one unique identifier; a level of consumption associated with a plurality of resources of the hierarchic file system; a second file system mounted inside any available directory of the hierarchic file system such that the computer system uses the second file system as a new tree of the hierarchic file system; a quantitative parameter calculated to correspond to file resource consumption associated with the new tree, wherein the system calculates the quantitative parameter by: