From: Ming Zhang Subject: Re: about quota implementation Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:40:58 -0400 Message-ID: <1173721258.3889.48.camel@dhcp-107.ibrix.com> References: <1173715909.3889.23.camel@dhcp-107.ibrix.com> <20070312163517.GA8690@infradead.org> <1173719485.6436.35.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1173720257.3889.35.camel@dhcp-107.ibrix.com> <20070312172714.GA23383@infradead.org> Reply-To: blackmagic02881@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Trond Myklebust To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HQocU-0003cQ-3w for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:47:38 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.242]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HQocV-0000Iq-Jx for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:47:39 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so2523979and for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:47:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070312172714.GA23383@infradead.org> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 17:27 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:24:17PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > > so it worthy duplicating whole rpc logic in quota-tools instead of a > > There's a lot more rpc logic in userspace than the few kernel bits > we have for nfs :) can not agree more. :P > > > unified interface via vfs and single quotactl system call? > > I'd like that also. Then again we don't really have an all that > unified quta syscall API either, as XFS has a much more advanced > quota subsystem which also needs a different userspace API. i saw you are shifting here. ;) maybe u are right, "a semi unified interface" (since we can not unify the xfs here) possibly is not worthy the effort of adding extra code in kernel. thanks a lot for all of your explanation. Ming ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs