linux-ext4 - Re: how to quotacheck with the new quota implementation (hidden inode)?

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:41:24 -0200
From:	Carlos Carvalho <carlos@...ica.ufpr.br>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: how to quotacheck with the new quota implementation (hidden
 inode)?

Thanks for the detailed instructions.

Theodore Ts'o (tytso@....edu) wrote on 31 January 2013 17:03:
 >If you use quota with a freshly created file
 >system, it works pretty well, as long as the usage quota information
 >never gets inconsistent (or if you are using the quota system for
 >usage tracking only and not for quota enforcement).  But if you try to
 >add the quota feature to an already existing file system which has
 >files already pre-populated, there are some definite issues that need
 >fixing.   :-(

That's what I'm doing: in a new filesystem I use the new
implementation, in another I use the vfs one, because it's populated.
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