On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Sounds good to me. Thanks, > Thanks to Niu and whamcloud for implementing this critically needed > bit of functionality! > > - Ted > -- Aditya -- 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
