On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:12:06PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > this is just a heads up that I've modified quota tools to handle > quota files in hidden inodes for ext4. Current source code can be pulled > from git repository at sf.net: linuxquota.git.sourceforge.net Could you give a quick summary of what the functionality the quota tools will have vis-a-vis the hidden inodes? I assume things like repquota will work. But will quotacheck work? Quite frankly I'd much rather it didn't since then it might get confusing since some people might try to do the evil thing of running quota check on a live file system, with all of the races that might imply, versus using e2fsck to check and update the quota files as part of the fsck process. Also, I had hoped to have the model where quota tracking would be enabled automatically when the file system was mounted, and there would not be a way of disabling quota tracking except when the file system was unmounted, so at least in theory the only way the quota files could get stale is if the file system was corrupted or modified directly via tools like e2tools or debugfs. Presumably we'll be able to enforce this by having the kernel refuse the quotaoff quotactl request, but I just want to make sure the overall user experience between the kernel support, the e2fsprogs support, and the quota tools all come together in a way that's optimal for the sysadmin who will need to use all of this stuff. Cheers, - 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
