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Subject: Re: What is standing in the way of opening the 2.5 tree?
To: jack@suse.cz (Jan Kara)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 23:03:43 +0000 (GMT)
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>   The second patch is patch which implements new quota format. It makes
> changes in quotactl() interface and other changes visible in userspace.
> I think that is the reason why Linus doesn't want it in 2.4 and I agree with him.

The problem is that without it 32bit uids are useless. That means any real
world ldap using customer can't use Linus quotas.

I'd really like to figure a way the code can handle both at once
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