Re: [PATCH 1/4] Adds general codes to enforces project quota limits

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On Wed 24-09-14 10:13:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:10:20PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >   Yeah, I'm aware of that but I decided I won't bother Li Xi with that
> > since it's independent issue and 8 bytes aren't that terrible.
> 
> For the inode of which we have so many instances it is.  Especially when
> only one filesystem can make use of this new field.
>  
> > Personally
> > I somewhat prefer what I did in
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg74927.html
> > where we don't introduce additional method but rather a table with field
> > offsets in superblock. If people agree with this, I can cook up a patch for
> > quota relatively quickly.
> 
> There's an even better way.  We stopped calling the dquot_* functions
> from generic code, so now the filesystem can simply pass in a pointer
> to the dquot array.
  I thought that as well before I tried that :) There are situations like
when turning quotas on & off where we iterate over all inodes and need to
get dquots from the inode... I don't see how to handle those situations
without fs callback / table of offsets.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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