Comment # 23 on bug 931571 from Matthias Eckermann

(In reply to kolA flash from comment #22)
> I guess the cleanest solution for this would be a possibility, to set a
> maximum disk-usage.
> Think of setting a limit of xxx MB or yyy % of disk-space for snapshots.

Yes,indeed. See my comment#17 above:
this is called "subvolume quota", and it is being worked on.

> I guess the technical problem for this would be how to check this limit
> dynamically.

Well, snapper could just do it, when creating or removing snapshots, ...