Subject: Re: [RFC] VFS: Export dquot_send_warning
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:15:07 +0100
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Hi,

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:09 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:26:20AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > > If you want to use it without the "generic" quotas it needs to move
> > > from dquota.c to quota.c.  And of course a user in the patch series
> > > makes the likelyhood of getting this included muc higher :)
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, I have a patch to make use of this from GFS2 though I didn't sent
> > it in the first instance as its trivial and I was more worried about the
> > generic idea being acceptable. Anyway, I'll send an updated patch,
> > including moving/renaming where required, shortly,
> 
> Ok, if you want to be nice send a patch for XFS, too.  Any I really want
> to exercise this functionality in XFSQA as it feels a bit fragile to me.
> Does anyone know about an example userspace client for the
> notifications?
> 
Yes, I'll look at the other filesystems too, but I wanted to be
reasonably sure that it would be ok first. I've got an updated patch
which I'll send shortly.

There is a userspace client in the quota tools called quota_nld but at
the moment its refusing to build for me... looks like some version issue
wrt to the netlink library that its using. Otherwise I'll write my
own :-)

Steve.


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