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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:23:33 +0100
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
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Subject: Re: some curiosities on the filesystems layout in kernel config
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> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:00:40 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>  said:
> 
> > 3) currently, since quotas are only supported for ext2, ext3 and
> >    reiserfs, shouldn't quotas depend on at least one of those
> >    being selected?
  Quotas work also for other filesystems...

> Because if we did that, we'd be setting ourselves up for a mess when
> fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c eventually shows up - like it already has ;)
> 
> Also, from my (possibly incorrect) reading of kernel/sys.c and
> fs/quota.c, there won't be a sys_quotactl() in the kernel.  As a
> result, if you have users who have 'quota -v' in their .login, things
> might get interesting.  So you might want a config where the quota
> system call is there, even if it doesn't do anything incredibly
> useful...
  You're right that it won't be in the kernel but in that case 'quota
-v' will just say 'Disk quotas for user test (uid 1000): none' (in case
you haven't any filesystem mounted with usrquota option which is
reasonable if you haven't quotas in kernel).

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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