From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: Reporting project quota usage? Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:40:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20160318094015.GB7152@quack.suse.cz> References: <20160316052906.GA23610@thunk.org> <20160317004847.GG23593@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Dilger , Li Xi , Jan Kara , Dave Chinner , linux-ext4 To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45278 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752771AbcCRJju (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 05:39:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160317004847.GG23593@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed 16-03-16 20:48:47, Ted Tso wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 03:49:31PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > At one time I thought Dave was going to patch xfs_quota to try the quota > > ioctls for "foreign" filesystems like ext4 that supported them, but I'm > > not sure if that patch was landed, nor whether it has been released. > > > > On the opposite front, Jan was updating the generic quota tools to support > > the XFS ioctls that project quota is using? > > It's quite possible I'm missing something, but it doesn't look like > either has landed. I've hacked xfs_quota (not anything that I would > want to submit for merging) so I can report usage project quota stats, > and to be able to set hard and soft limits. But I was trying to > figure out what we should be telling users who wanted to use Project > Quota, but I'm pretty sure "pull down xfsprogs sources, and apply this > hacky patch[1], and then when you use the tooll ignore a whole bunch > of spurious warnings" is the right way to go. :-) > > I am also curious how Li Xi was testing the patches he sent me. As Li Xi mentioned, he has a patch for quota-tools which implements the project quota support but it needs some cleanup (you can check my reply to email "[PATCH] Add project quota support" - it didn't go to any list but you were CCed). Li Xi, do you have any idea when you can get to it? Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR