linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] quota: Add mountpath based quota support

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Date:   Tue, 9 Feb 2021 10:57:48 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...gutronix.de, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] quota: Add mountpath based quota support

On Tue 09-02-21 08:51:01, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 01:53:50PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Now quota data stored in a normal file is a setup we try to deprecate
> > anyway so another option is to just leave quotactl_path() only for those
> > setups where quota metadata is managed by the filesystem so we don't need
> > to pass quota files to Q_QUOTAON?
> 
> I'd be perfectly fine with that.

OK, then this looks like the best way forward to me. We can always extend
the quotactl_path() syscall later if we find this is problematic for some
real usecases.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR