From: Dmitry Monakhov Subject: journaled quota file question Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:14:45 +0300 Message-ID: <871vkpwv4a.fsf@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.80.4]:50557 "EHLO mail.2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754722AbZJ0AOj (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:14:39 -0400 Received: from dmon-lp ([unknown] [10.55.92.161]) by mail.2ka.mipt.ru (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 64bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0KS500MG7A35M750@mail.2ka.mipt.ru> for linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:18:44 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: While looking to ext3/4 quota code I'm wondering Why do we have to place journaled quota file on fs root? In some situations it may be useful to place it deeper for example: /root/dir/quota_file The only reason what comes in to my mind is that some one may rename parent folder rename("/root/dir", "/root/dir2") Is this the only reason?