On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:29:16PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 04-03-21 13:35:38, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > Current quotactl syscall uses a path to a block device to specify the > > filesystem to work on which makes it unsuitable for filesystems that > > do not have a block device. This series adds a new syscall quotactl_path() > > which replaces the path to the block device with a mountpath, but otherwise > > behaves like original quotactl. > > > > This is done to add quota support to UBIFS. UBIFS quota support has been > > posted several times with different approaches to put the mountpath into > > the existing quotactl() syscall until it has been suggested to make it a > > new syscall instead, so here it is. > > > > I'm not posting the full UBIFS quota series here as it remains unchanged > > and I'd like to get feedback to the new syscall first. For those interested > > the most recent series can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/810463/ > > Thanks. I've merged the two patches into my tree and will push them to > Linus for the next merge window. Thanks by the way. Now that these patches are merged I'll respin my UBIFS quota series soon. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
