Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:44:10 +0100
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values
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On Tue 18-03-08 17:40:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Mar 17 2008 14:11, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>
>>> For 2.6.26, I assume?  I am not able to determine the seriousness of this
>>> problem from the changelog nor from the patch itself.
>>
>>  Not really serious. Nobody complained so far (i.e., for the time quota
>> exists) and the limits will just wrap when you try to set them over 4TB
>> now. So the patch can wait...
> So does quota_v2.c even handle quotas > 4 TB?
  Usage yes, limits no. But some Sun guys are already working on a patch
for fully 64-bit quota. I already have a decent kernel patch from him but
I'd like to see also tools support to really run it before merging the
patch :).

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