diff --git a/pkg/volume/emptydir/empty_dir.go b/pkg/volume/emptydir/empty_dir.go
index 4f1061a439e..c42b68ac145 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/emptydir/empty_dir.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/emptydir/empty_dir.go
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ func (ed *emptyDir) SetUpAt(dir string, mounterArgs volume.MounterArgs) error {
 				klog.V(3).Infof("Unable to check for quota support on %s: %s", dir, err.Error())
 			} else if hasQuotas {
 				klog.V(4).Infof("emptydir trying to assign quota %v on %s", mounterArgs.DesiredSize, dir)
-				err := fsquota.AssignQuota(ed.mounter, dir, mounterArgs.PodUID, mounterArgs.DesiredSize)
+				err := fsquota.AssignQuota(ed.mounter, dir, ed.pod.UID, mounterArgs.DesiredSize)
 				if err != nil {
 					klog.V(3).Infof("Set quota on %s failed %s", dir, err.Error())
 				}
diff --git a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/BUILD b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/BUILD
index e5a73e0e63c..b10fa34e5a5 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/BUILD
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ go_library(
         "//pkg/features:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/util/mount:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource:go_default_library",
+        "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/feature:go_default_library",
     ] + select({
         "@io_bazel_rules_go//go/platform:linux": [
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ go_test(
             "//pkg/util/mount:go_default_library",
             "//pkg/volume/util/fsquota/common:go_default_library",
             "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource:go_default_library",
+            "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types:go_default_library",
             "//staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/feature:go_default_library",
             "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/featuregate/testing:go_default_library",
         ],
diff --git a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota.go b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota.go
index 1db1595c18a..877b8fe9d28 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package fsquota
 
 import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 	utilfeature "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/feature"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/features"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/mount"
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ type Interface interface {
 	SupportsQuotas(m mount.Interface, path string) (bool, error)
 	// Assign a quota (picked by the quota mechanism) to a path,
 	// and return it.
-	AssignQuota(m mount.Interface, path string, poduid string, bytes *resource.Quantity) error
+	AssignQuota(m mount.Interface, path string, poduid types.UID, bytes *resource.Quantity) error
 
 	// Get the quota-based storage consumption for the path
 	GetConsumption(path string) (*resource.Quantity, error)
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ type Interface interface {
 	// Remove the quota from a path
 	// Implementations may assume that any data covered by the
 	// quota has already been removed.
-	ClearQuota(m mount.Interface, path string, poduid string) error
+	ClearQuota(m mount.Interface, path string) error
 }
 
 func enabledQuotasForMonitoring() bool {
diff --git a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux.go b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux.go
index 3b502dd33fe..65c24c52070 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/uuid"
 	"k8s.io/klog"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/mount"
@@ -33,16 +34,16 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Pod -> ID
-var podQuotaMap = make(map[string]common.QuotaID)
+var podQuotaMap = make(map[types.UID]common.QuotaID)
 
 // Dir -> ID (for convenience)
 var dirQuotaMap = make(map[string]common.QuotaID)
 
 // ID -> pod
-var quotaPodMap = make(map[common.QuotaID]string)
+var quotaPodMap = make(map[common.QuotaID]types.UID)
 
 // Directory -> pod
-var dirPodMap = make(map[string]string)
+var dirPodMap = make(map[string]types.UID)
 
 // Backing device -> applier
 // This is *not* cleaned up; its size will be bounded.
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ var dirApplierMap = make(map[string]common.LinuxVolumeQuotaApplier)
 var dirApplierLock sync.RWMutex
 
 // Pod -> refcount
-var podDirCountMap = make(map[string]int)
+var podDirCountMap = make(map[types.UID]int)
 
 // ID -> size
 var quotaSizeMap = make(map[common.QuotaID]int64)
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ func SupportsQuotas(m mount.Interface, path string) (bool, error) {
 // AssignQuota chooses the quota ID based on the pod UID and path.
 // If the pod UID is identical to another one known, it may (but presently
 // doesn't) choose the same quota ID as other volumes in the pod.
-func AssignQuota(m mount.Interface, path string, poduid string, bytes *resource.Quantity) error {
+func AssignQuota(m mount.Interface, path string, poduid types.UID, bytes *resource.Quantity) error {
 	if bytes == nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Attempting to assign null quota to %s", path)
 	}
@@ -311,7 +312,7 @@ func AssignQuota(m mount.Interface, path string, poduid string, bytes *resource.
 	// volumes in a pod, we can simply remove this line of code.
 	// If and when we decide permanently that we're going to adop
 	// one quota per volume, we can rip all of the pod code out.
-	poduid = string(uuid.NewUUID())
+	poduid = types.UID(uuid.NewUUID())
 	if pod, ok := dirPodMap[path]; ok && pod != poduid {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Requesting quota on existing directory %s but different pod %s %s", path, pod, poduid)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux_test.go b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux_test.go
index a34b25450ed..06119c738b5 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux_test.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_linux_test.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 	utilfeature "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/feature"
 	featuregatetesting "k8s.io/component-base/featuregate/testing"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/features"
@@ -389,7 +390,7 @@ func fakeSupportsQuotas(path string) (bool, error) {
 	return SupportsQuotas(dummyQuotaTest(), path)
 }
 
-func fakeAssignQuota(path string, poduid string, bytes int64) error {
+func fakeAssignQuota(path string, poduid types.UID, bytes int64) error {
 	dummySetFSInfo(path)
 	return AssignQuota(dummyQuotaTest(), path, poduid, resource.NewQuantity(bytes, resource.DecimalSI))
 }
@@ -401,7 +402,7 @@ func fakeClearQuota(path string) error {
 
 type quotaTestCase struct {
 	path                             string
-	poduid                           string
+	poduid                           types.UID
 	bytes                            int64
 	op                               string
 	expectedProjects                 string
diff --git a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_unsupported.go b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_unsupported.go
index 84892ca9e64..f1ae4cdd1f4 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_unsupported.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/util/fsquota/quota_unsupported.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package fsquota
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/mount"
 )
 
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ func SupportsQuotas(_ mount.Interface, _ string) (bool, error) {
 }
 
 // AssignQuota -- dummy implementation
-func AssignQuota(_ mount.Interface, _ string, _ string, _ *resource.Quantity) error {
+func AssignQuota(_ mount.Interface, _ string, _ types.UID, _ *resource.Quantity) error {
 	return errNotImplemented
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/volume/util/operationexecutor/operation_generator.go b/pkg/volume/util/operationexecutor/operation_generator.go
index 354ae638968..74b8b02ef8a 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/util/operationexecutor/operation_generator.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/util/operationexecutor/operation_generator.go
@@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ func (og *operationGenerator) GenerateMountVolumeFunc(
 		mountErr := volumeMounter.SetUp(volume.MounterArgs{
 			FsGroup:     fsGroup,
 			DesiredSize: volumeToMount.DesiredSizeLimit,
-			PodUID:      string(volumeToMount.Pod.UID),
 		})
 		if mountErr != nil {
 			// On failure, return error. Caller will log and retry.
diff --git a/pkg/volume/volume.go b/pkg/volume/volume.go
index bfc4b31d656..cb78d94515a 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/volume.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/volume.go
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ type Attributes struct {
 type MounterArgs struct {
 	FsGroup     *int64
 	DesiredSize *resource.Quantity
-	PodUID      string
 }
 
 // Mounter interface provides methods to set up/mount the volume.