On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:36:37AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote: > Personally, I'd probably have to think about it some more, but initially > I don't have any strong objection to removing quotaoff support. More > practically, I suspect we'd have to deprecate it for some period of time > given that it's a generic interface, has userspace tools, regression > tests, etc., and may or may not have real users who might want the > opportunity to object (or adjust). > > Though perhaps potentially avoiding that mess is what you mean by "... > disables accounting vs. enforcement." I.e., retain the interface and > general ability to turn off enforcement, but require a mount cycle in > the future to disable accounting..? Hmm... that seems like a potentially > nicer/easier path forward and a less disruptive change. I wonder even if > we could just (eventually) ignore the accounting disablement flags from > userspace and if any users would have reason to care about that change > in behavior. I'm currently testing a series that just ignores disabling of accounting and logs a message and that seems to do ok so far. I'll check if clearing the on-disk flags as well could work out even better.
