Allow Linux Clients to See Directory Usage EMC Isilon

Introduction

If you have Linux clients accessing NFS shares on an Isilon Scale out NAS then they may not be able to see the usage of a directory using the “df” command.

Fix

Now the fix only works on directories which have a hard quota or both a hard and soft quota set on the Isilon cluster. The command it requires is either of the following:

isi quota quotas modify --type=directory --path=/ifs/data/test --container=true

or

isi quota quotas create --type=directory --path=/ifs/data/test --hard-threshold=100G --container=true

Obviously the parameter here is the container setting. You can check the output using the following command:

isi quota quotas list --verbose --format=table

This will give an output whether the container flag is set per quota already created.

On the client then when running “df -h” they will actually see the usage as if it was a normal local disk.

Easy.