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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 01:53:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 - Quotactl patch
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Right, but which old patch 2.4.18-pre3-quotactl reversed against
2.4.19-pre3-ac1 doesnt go out cleanly without patch complaining about
unreversed patch problems.

Shawn.

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Nathan Scott wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > You might want to upgrade to the newer one, the patch has undergone a lot
> > > of changes and -ac against the XFS merge of the quotactl patch seriously
> > > breaks ;-(
> >
> > The -ac patch is the current stable 2.4 one for 32bit uid quota. [...]
> >
>
> Shawn,
>
> We are using Jan's latest "alpha" patches in XFS CVS (not the latest
> "stable" patches), so you will need to follow the recipe I sent out
> earlier (see below) for getting these patches to work together with
> the quota patch in Alan's patches.  Following this recipe, nothing
> should "seriously break" -- please let me know if it does -- and no
> additional quota patches are necessary for XFS.
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:59:04AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
> >
> > I will be doing this today for -shawn10. Thank you.
> >
> > Shawn.
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > > Subject: TAKE - Even newer VFS quota
> > >
> > > This is Jan's latest set of VFS quota patches.  These patches (which
> > > were posted to LKML on the weekend) allow the two VFS quota formats
> > > and quotactl interfaces to coexist.  All seems stable on my machine.
> > >
> > > If you're one of the people merging XFS with Alan Cox's patches, you
> > > should first reverse-apply Jan's old patches (which removes the old
> > > 32 bit UID/GID quota from Alan's patches, and then apply the new code
> > > from the XFS CVS tree (which "re-applies" the 32 bit UID/GID quota
> > > patches, but now using Jan's new mechanisms).
> > >
> > > Please let us know of any quota oddities you see in the CVS tree.
> > >
> > > cheers.
> > >
>
>

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