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Message-ID: <20120424185231.GH18865@thunk.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:52:31 -0400 From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com> Cc: niu@...mcloud.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck,libquota: Update quota only if its inconsistent On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:11:03PM -0700, Aditya Kali wrote: > Currently fsck recomputes quotas and overwrites quota files > whenever its run. This causes unnecessary modification of > filesystem even when quotas were never inconsistent. We also > lose the limits information because of this. With this patch, > e2fsck compares the computed quotas to the on-disk quotas > (while updating the in-memory limits) and writes out the > quota inode only if it is inconsistent. > > Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com> Thanks, applied with one change: > + /* Update quota information if it is inconsistent */ > + { PR_6_UPDATE_QUOTAS, > + N_("Updating quota info for quota type %N "), > + PROMPT_NULL, PR_PREEN_OK | PR_NO_OK }, > + I changed "Updating" to "Update" since we will be asking a question. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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