linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values

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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:48:49 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not allow setting of quota limits to too high
 values


On Mar 18 2008 17:44, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For 2.6.26, I assume?  I am not able to determine the seriousness of this
>>>> problem from the changelog nor from the patch itself.
>>>
>>>  Not really serious. Nobody complained so far (i.e., for the time quota
>>> exists) and the limits will just wrap when you try to set them over 4TB
>>> now. So the patch can wait...
>> So does quota_v2.c even handle quotas > 4 TB?
>  Usage yes, limits no. But some Sun guys are already working on a patch
> for fully 64-bit quota. I already have a decent kernel patch from him but
> I'd like to see also tools support to really run it before merging the
> patch :).

Does this also affect XFS?
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