linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] quota: Add mountpath based quota support

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Date:   Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:43:47 +0100
From:   Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        kernel@...gutronix.de, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] quota: Add mountpath based quota support

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:29:16PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 04-03-21 13:35:38, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Current quotactl syscall uses a path to a block device to specify the
> > filesystem to work on which makes it unsuitable for filesystems that
> > do not have a block device. This series adds a new syscall quotactl_path()
> > which replaces the path to the block device with a mountpath, but otherwise
> > behaves like original quotactl.
> > 
> > This is done to add quota support to UBIFS. UBIFS quota support has been
> > posted several times with different approaches to put the mountpath into
> > the existing quotactl() syscall until it has been suggested to make it a
> > new syscall instead, so here it is.
> > 
> > I'm not posting the full UBIFS quota series here as it remains unchanged
> > and I'd like to get feedback to the new syscall first. For those interested
> > the most recent series can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/810463/
> 
> Thanks. I've merged the two patches into my tree and will push them to
> Linus for the next merge window.

Thanks by the way. Now that these patches are merged I'll respin my
UBIFS quota series soon.

Sascha

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