linux-ext4 - Re: quotacheck on 'tune2fs -O quota'

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Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:38:36 +0100
From:	Johann Lombardi <johann@...mcloud.com>
To:	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: quotacheck on 'tune2fs -O quota'

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:48:09AM -0700, Aditya Kali wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Johann Lombardi <johann@...mcloud.com> wrote:
> > The old quota files also contain enforcement information which will thus be lost.
> > To sum up, there is no way to upgrade without losing all quota limits?
> >
> I agree it would be useful to allow upgrades using existing quota
> files. I just didn't have a way of doing this correctly though so I
> had removed it. But this patch fixes it, so I am all for including it.

Great, thanks.

> Niu, could you please rebase your changes on top of the cleanup
> changes that I had sent?  Also, I will prefer if you split this patch
> into two patches-
> 1) to add support for reading existing quota files
> 2) do a quota check at tune2fs time

Niu has resubmitted the patches.

Cheers,
Johann
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