In Pure Storage FlashArray File Services (Purity//FA), administrators can apply Quota Policies to managed directories to control and monitor capacity consumption. When configuring the rules for these quotas, the limits are categorized into two specific types: Enforced and Unenforced.
Enforced Quotas (Hard Limits): When a quota rule is set with the --enforced flag set to True, it acts as a hard boundary. If the users or applications writing to that managed directory hit the specified capacity limit, the FlashArray will actively block any further write operations, ensuring the directory cannot exceed its allocated space.
Unenforced Quotas (Soft Limits): When a quota rule is unenforced (the flag is set to False), it acts purely as a monitoring and alerting threshold. Users can continue to write data and organically grow the directory past the specified limit without application disruption, but the system will track the overage and trigger administrative notifications.
Here is why the other options are incorrect:
File and Block (A): This describes the two underlying storage protocols/architectures the unified FlashArray serves, not the types of capacity quota limits for directories.
Limited and Unlimited (B): While you can theoretically leave a file system to grow "unlimited" up to the size of the array, the specific technical parameters in the Purity quota policy engine are defined as enforced vs. unenforced.