linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: make quota as first class supported feature

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Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:35:28 +0100
From:	Johann Lombardi <johann@...mcloud.com>
To:	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: make quota as first class supported feature

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:43:10AM -0700, Aditya Kali wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Johann Lombardi <johann@...mcloud.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:15:20PM -0700, Aditya Kali wrote:
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
> >> +     /* Enable quota usage during mount. */
> >> +     if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_QUOTA) &&
> >> +         !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
> >> +             ext4_quota_enable(sb, USRQUOTA, QFMT_VFS_V1,
> >> +                               DQUOT_USAGE_ENABLED);
> >> +             ext4_quota_enable(sb, GRPQUOTA, QFMT_VFS_V1,
> >> +                               DQUOT_USAGE_ENABLED);
> >
> > I think we should print an error message if one of the calls to ext4_quota_enable() failed. Space accounting in the quota files won't be accurate any more and e2fsck is required.
> 
> Are you suggesting that we mark the filesystem has having errors if
> this fails (use ext4_error() ) or simply print a warning in dmesg?

A warning in dmesg is the least we could do IMHO. Marking the filesystem as having errors would be even better, i think.
BTW, we have the same problem if CONFIG_QUOTA is not defined.

> I am currently marking the filesystem as having errors if ext4_iget()
> fails for the quota inode. But dquot_enable() could fail for other
> reasons too (specially if we allow using user-specified quota files).

Cheers,
Johann
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