On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 09:38:36PM +0100, Johann Lombardi wrote: > > I agree it would be useful to allow upgrades using existing quota > > files. I just didn't have a way of doing this correctly though so I > > had removed it. But this patch fixes it, so I am all for including it. > > Great, thanks. It's more than useful, it's mandatory. It wasn't important for Aditya's application since he was mainly worried about tracking disk space usage. But for anyone who cares about doing quota enforcement, losing the quota limits when you ran e2fsck is a non-starter. Just to get this on record, since we discussed this on the weekly conference call. I'm currently planning on making quota disabled by default in e2fsprogs, so that anyone who wants to use quota will have to use an --enable-quota configure option. That's because I'm not completely convinced that quota is fully baked and tested. After reviewing Niu's patches, I'll apply them, and that way the quota feature won't hold up the e2fsprogs 1.42 release. People who feel comfortable using it can enable it via --enable-quota, and after we give it a bit more of a shakedown, we can enable it by default in some 1.42.X maintenance release. Thanks to Niu and whamcloud for implementing this critically needed bit of functionality! - Ted -- 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
