In previous Linux kernels -- 2.6.13 and below -- XFS quota could be set
"statically" -- that is, in "make xconfig" you could put a "check mark" in the
XFS_quota support box even though you had a "dot" (module) in the Overall
XFS_Filesystem support box .
In 2.6.14, not only has XFS support moved under filesystems with all the
other filesystems, but you can no longer put a "checkmark" in the "quota
support" box if you compile XFS support as a module.
Is this by design? Looking back at all of my past kernels, xfs is enabled as
a module but quota support is enabled statically. This is how config files
have been coming from Mandrake for at least the past year.
Is there a reason why this option is no longer available? If you compile
xfs_quota as a module, how do you load it?
Andy
Hi Andy,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:04:10PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> ...
> Is there a reason why this option is no longer available? If you compile
> xfs_quota as a module, how do you load it?
Oh, bother - the option:
config XFS_QUOTA
tristate "XFS Quota support"
should be:
config XFS_QUOTA
bool "XFS Quota support"
I'll get that fixed up, thanks.
--
Nathan
On Friday 28 October 2005 20:46, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:04:10PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > ...
> > Is there a reason why this option is no longer available? If you compile
> > xfs_quota as a module, how do you load it?
>
> Oh, bother - the option:
>
> config XFS_QUOTA
> tristate "XFS Quota support"
>
> should be:
>
> config XFS_QUOTA
> bool "XFS Quota support"
>
> I'll get that fixed up, thanks.
This might be a good thing to put in 2.6.14.1.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:33:21PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> I tried compiling XFS statically into the kernel and it's also a "no go" on
> quota support. So, am I to conclude that 2.6.14 as it currently stands cannot
> support XFS quotas?
Hmm, I'd have thought it'd work builtin, thats how I tend to use it.
Either way, the code is all there, its just an annoying config issue.
> As you know, we have quite a few users who have been waiting for the XFS
> changes that went into 2.6.14 (as you and I have discussed). Hope the fix comes
> along soon.
Theres a patch already floating around that will resolve it, let me
know how that goes.
cheers.
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Nathan
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:15:22PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> could you be a little clearer on this. What do you mean by "there's a patch
> already floating around". If I knew where to get the patch, I would have
> installed it already rather than wasting half a day compiling various flavors of
> the new kernel (no preemption, voluntary preemption, high preemption).
>
Oh, sorry - I was refering to this...
cheers.
--
Nathan
----- Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> -----
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:33:25 +0200
To: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], Dimitri Puzin <[email protected]>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11
From: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Subject: [2.6 patch] fix XFS_QUOTA for modular XFS
This patch by Dimitri Puzin submitted through kernel Bugzilla #5514
fixes the following issue:
Cannot build XFS filesystem support as module with quota support. It
works only when the XFS filesystem support is compiled into the kernel.
Menuconfig prevents from setting CONFIG_XFS_FS=m and CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y.
How to reproduce: configure the XFS filesystem with quota support as
module. The resulting kernel won't have quota support compiled into
xfs.ko.
Fix: Changing the fs/xfs/Kconfig file from tristate to bool lets you
configure the quota support to be compiled into the XFS module. The
Makefile-linux-2.6 checks only for CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y.
From: Dimitri Puzin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1/fs/xfs/Kconfig.old 2005-10-28 19:51:02.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc5-mm1/fs/xfs/Kconfig 2005-10-28 19:51:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
default y
config XFS_QUOTA
- tristate "XFS Quota support"
+ bool "XFS Quota support"
depends on XFS_FS
help
If you say Y here, you will be able to set limits for disk usage on
----- End forwarded message -----
>In a message dated 10/28/2005 6:47:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] >writes:
>This patch by Dimitri Puzin submitted through kernel Bugzilla #5514
>fixes the following issue:
>
>Cannot build XFS filesystem support as module with quota support. It
>works only when the XFS filesystem support is compiled into the kernel.
>Menuconfig prevents from setting CONFIG_XFS_FS=m and CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y.
>
>Fix: Changing the fs/xfs/Kconfig file from tristate to bool lets you
>configure the quota support to be compiled into the XFS module. The
>Makefile-linux-2.6 checks only for CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y.
Just wanted to let you know this works fine.
Andy Liebman