Hi, sorry for the delay.
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jan Kara wrote:
On Thu 15-10-20 14:32:52, Roman Anufriev wrote:
Right now, it is hard to understand what quota journalling type is enabled:
you need to be quite familiar with kernel code and trace it or really
understand what different combinations of fs flags/mount options lead to.
This patch exports via sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/quota_mode current
quota jounalling mode, making it easier to check at a glance/in autotests.
The semantics is similar to ext4 data journalling modes:
* journalled - quota accounting and journaling are enabled
* writeback - quota accounting is enabled, but journalling is disabled
* none - quota accounting is disabled
* disabled - kernel compiled without CONFIG_QUOTA feature
Signed-off-by: Roman Anufriev <dotdot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hum, I'm not sure about this. The state of quota can be found out with
"quotaon -p <mntpoint>" (or corresponding quotactl if you need this from
C). The only thing you won't learn is journalled / writeback mode and
generally you should not care about this although I agree that for fs
crash testing purposes you may care. But is that big enough usecase for a
new sysfs file when all the information is already available for userspace
just not in a convenient form?
Rationale behind this patch was mainly the addition of an easy way to
check whether quota journalled or not as this is quite wanted feature in
out production environment. TBH, I was not sure about sysfs file too, but
it seemed to me like the most natural place to put it. Maybe if sysfs is
an overkill - just add printing to dmesg on mount? At least, you'll be
able to check what quota type you can enable right after mounting.
BTW, I've now realized ext4_any_quota_enabled() has actually misleading
name in the sysfs file reports wrong information. It is rather
ext4_any_quota_may_be_enabled() since presence of QUOTA mount option only
says that quotaon(8) will enable quotas if it is run, not that quota
accounting is enabled. sb_any_quota_loaded() tells you if accounting is
actually enabled or not (however this can change anytime so that's why we
use more relaxed checks for the purpose of journal credit estimates).
My bad! Totally forgot about the case when 'quota' mount option is present
but quota accounting is not enabled, as our helper-tool around
'quotactl()' do remounting+enabling in one go.
I'll rename the function to smth like 'ext4_quota_capable()' in v2. And if
printing to dmesg is OK, I'll probably still use this function to print on
mount what the quota type will be after accounting is enabled.
Roman
