On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 12:27, Chris Mason wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 13:08, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Oct 24, 2002 18:45 +0200, Fabien Combernous wrote: > > > +--------+------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > | quotas | Again "Y" is not aqual. ext3 accept quota only on data-journaled | > > > | | filesystems, but all other journaled filesystem don't have data | > > > +--------+------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > Granted that I have never used quotas, so it is possible that I > > am incorrect. However, my understanding is that yes, you do need > > data-journaled quota files to ensure that your quota tables don't miss > > some operations after a crash. However, you can separately select > > data journaling for files in ext3 (via chattr), even if the rest of > > the filesystem is using data=ordered (the default). > > data journaling on the quota files is better. Some quota updates (dqput > calling commit_dquot) are done only by clear_inode(), which should > happen outside the transaction and won't be grouped with the actual > metadata change. > XFS quota file updates are transactional with the original metadata change which allocated or freed space. So while we do not have data journalling, quota updates are journalled. Steve -- Steve Lord voice: +1-651-683-3511 Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software email: lord@sgi.com _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
