Quota soft limits and grace time

A capacity soft limit specifies the amount of storage that a user, group, or file store can use before a grace period for writes begins. If the user, group, or file store does not reduce the amount of used storage below the soft limit, before the grace period ends, then the user, group, or file store writes are blocked.

A files soft limit specifies the number of files that a user, group, or file store can have before a grace period for writes is begun. If the user, group, or file store does not reduce the number of files below the soft limit before the grace period ends, then the user, group or file store writes are blocked.