Disk Quota States

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

The administrator can turn quota enforcement on and off. There are three quota states, as shown in the following table.

State Description
Quota disabled Quota usage changes are not tracked, but the quota limits are not removed. In this state, performance is not affected by disk quotas. This is the default state.
Quota tracked Quota usage changes are tracked, but quota limits are not enforced. In this state, no quota violation events are generated and no file operations fail because of disk quota violations.
Quota enforced Quota usage changes are tracked and quota limits are enforced.