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

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Message-ID: <CAGr1F2ENDTZxVA95oEQBWCV-SC-izbzrTdacdCbnXcz5WBwHww@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:56:48 -0800
From:	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Johann Lombardi <johann@...mcloud.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: quotacheck on 'tune2fs -O quota'

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 09:38:36PM +0100, Johann Lombardi wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> It's more than useful, it's mandatory.  It wasn't important for
> Aditya's application since he was mainly worried about tracking disk
> space usage.  But for anyone who cares about doing quota enforcement,
> losing the quota limits when you ran e2fsck is a non-starter.
>
> Just to get this on record, since we discussed this on the weekly
> conference call.  I'm currently planning on making quota disabled by
> default in e2fsprogs, so that anyone who wants to use quota will have
> to use an --enable-quota configure option.  That's because I'm not
> completely convinced that quota is fully baked and tested.  After
> reviewing Niu's patches, I'll apply them, and that way the quota
> feature won't hold up the e2fsprogs 1.42 release.  People who feel
> comfortable using it can enable it via --enable-quota, and after we
> give it a bit more of a shakedown, we can enable it by default in some
> 1.42.X maintenance release.
>
Sounds good to me.

Thanks,

> Thanks to Niu and whamcloud for implementing this critically needed
> bit of functionality!
>
>                                        - Ted
>



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Aditya
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