linux-ext4 - Re: [v15 0/4] ext4: add project quota support

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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:25:23 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Shuichi Ihara <sihara@....com>, Li Xi <pkuelelixi@...il.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Дмитрий Монахов 
	<dmonakhov@...nvz.org>, Shuichi Ihara <ihashu@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [v15 0/4] ext4: add project quota support

On Fri 20-11-15 08:47:27, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:14:32PM +0000, Shuichi Ihara wrote:
> > 
> > 11/9/15, 6:28 AM , "Dave Chinner" <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 03:13:10PM +0000, Shuichi Ihara wrote:
> > >> Hello Ted, Andreas,
> > >> 
> > >> Shilong posted an email here a week ago below.
> > >> http://lists.openwall.net/linux-ext4/2015/10/30/2
> > >> 
> > >> we identified 10 project quota related xfstest and ported them into ext4/xxx.
> > >> test number are 304, 305, 299, 244, 196, 134, 108, 107, 106, 050 in xfs.
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> We ported 9/10 tests into ext4/xxx
> > >> ext4/050 ext4/106 ext4/107 ext4/108 ext4/196 ext4/244 ext4/299 ext4/400 ext4/401
> > >
> > >Please make them generic tests - the ext4 project quota
> > >functioanlity should work with those tests being completely
> > >unchanged except for a "_requires_project_quota()" function...
> > 
> > Right now, we enhanced quotatool to support project quota and above project quota tests in ext4 uses that interface.
> > xfs uses own interface xfs_xx for project quota tests in xfs.
> > what interface are you looking at if we move ext4's project quota tests into generic tests?
> 
> The project quota support in the generic quota tool should work XFS
> as well as ext4. If it doesn't, then it's not a generic tool, right?
> The whole point of having ext4 use the same userspace API as XFS is
> so that all quotas can be managed with the one tool. Essentially, if
> ext4 project quotas cannot be controlled by xfs_quota, then the ext4
> code is not compatible with XFS and hence still needs work.
> 
> FWIW, if ext4 has implemented the kernel project quota interfaces
> correctly, then it should not matter whether we use xfs_quota or the
> generic quotatool because the kernel will translate the filesystem
> information to whatever format the quota was requested in...
> 
> So, you should be able to simply use the xfs_quota tool in the tests
> you make generic without needing any significant modification to the
> tests to run them on ext4. Yes, that may mean you need to send a 5
> line patch to make xfs_quota run on ext4, but that's trivial
> compared to duplicating >10 tests and then having to maintain them
> forever...

Yeah, last time I tried the only modification xfs_quota tool needed to work
correctly with ext4 was to remove / modify the check for filesystem type
in fs_table_initialise_mounts(). The question is how to properly deal with
that. I don't think just removing the fs type check is the right way to go
as that will have unexpected side effects for operations working on
"all" filesystems - currently these are restricted to "all" *XFS*
filesystems.

Maybe we can add a command line option which will disable the fs type check
so that non-XFS filesystems can be handled. We used to have an option like
this for xfs_io but it seems it got removed so I'm not sure we want to add
that into xfs_quota though. Dave?

Another option would be to use generic quota-tools for project quota tests
once the patches land. But that would require some more work on xfstests
side and so far I didn't get an official submission of patches for
quota-tools to support project quota.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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