From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:10:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20120427151057.GA16580@fieldses.org> References: <20120427010610.GE9541@dastard> <20120419140558.17272.74360.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <4111.1335519545@redhat.com> <20120427131306.GG9541@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, wine-devel@winehq.org, kfm-devel@kde.org, nautilus-list@gnome.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:51231 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760272Ab2D0PLZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:11:25 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120427131306.GG9541@dastard> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:13:06PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Right now it is, but there's ben patches in the past to introduce > project quotas to ext4. That didn't go far because it was done in a > way that was semantically different to XFS (for no reason that I > could understand) and nobody wanted two different sets of semantics > for the "same" feature. The most common use of project quotas is to > implement sub-tree quotas, (Though it's also useful as a way to do safe subtree NFS exports). --b. > which is probably of more interest to > btrfs folks as it is an exact match for per-subvolume quotas. > > So, yes, I do see it as something generically useful - it's a > feature that a lot of people use XFS specifically for.... > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@fromorbit.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html