Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> writes: > On 2010-03-11, at 11:51, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:11:57PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: >>> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> There's really no reason to make this a config option. >>> Project id feature is not likely to be widely used (i hope only >>> at the beginning). Personally this is not bad to avoid config option. >>> At least we will have many new users for free. But I predict >>> many angry voices against enabling this feature by default. >> >> How would those "angry voices" notice this feature? > > > The embedded folks are continually complaining about kernel bloat. > > I don't see it as a bad thing that there is a config option for a > feature that will likely be used by < 1% of Linux users. Definitely we have to hide projectid under kernel config option, bu,t what option should it be? We have two choices 1) CONFIG_QUOTA: because most of users who use quota probably will also use project id support 2) introduce new config option: This may be reasonable if projectid may be usefull witout quota and inode size is critical. (i dont know such cases for now) > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
