Implementing quota support on Linux without block device as backing store ? / was: RE: [PATCH 1/8] quota: Allow to pass mount path to quotactl

["Mainz, Roland" <R.Mainz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sascha Hauer wrote:
> This patch introduces the Q_PATH flag to the quotactl cmd argument.
> When given, the path given in the special argument to quotactl will be the
> mount path where the filesystem is mounted, instead of a path to the block
> device.
> This is necessary for filesystems which do not have a block device as backing
> store. Particularly this is done for upcoming UBIFS support.

Just curious: Did you check how NFSv4 (also a filesystem without block device as backing store...)  implemented quota support ? Maybe there is already a solution...

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