linux-ext4 - Re: quota reservation fixes for -stable?

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Message-ID: <20100419225209.GK5439@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:52:10 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: quota reservation fixes for -stable?

On Fri 16-04-10 15:37:35, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 04/01/2010 03:23 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> >   Ah, I'm testing quotas on non-root fs so I was wondering how come people
> > hit the warning so often. Now I understand :) For root filesystem on ext4
> > we don't have a chance to not see this warning. That being said the warning
> > is pretty useless for ordinary users so I guess we should just hide it
> > behind #ifdef __DQUOT_PARANOIA and use it for debugging purposes only.
> >   If noone objects soon, I'll do the change.
> > 
> > 								Honza
> 
> Hm, I see this in your tree now, but isn't __DQUOT_PARANOIA defined by
> default anyway?
  Ah, good point. Thanks for spotting this. I guess the attached cleanup is
long overdue... Will push it too Linus this week and then to stable if
noone objects.

								Honza

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

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