Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: some curiosities on the filesystems layout in kernel config | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:49:29 -0500 |
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:00:40 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> said:
> 2) shouldn't ext3 depend on ext2?
No, because somebody might want ext3 only, and have no intention or desire to mount a filesystem in ext2 mode. Everything on this laptop is ext3...
> 3) currently, since quotas are only supported for ext2, ext3 and > reiserfs, shouldn't quotas depend on at least one of those > being selected?
Because if we did that, we'd be setting ourselves up for a mess when fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c eventually shows up - like it already has ;)
Also, from my (possibly incorrect) reading of kernel/sys.c and fs/quota.c, there won't be a sys_quotactl() in the kernel. As a result, if you have users who have 'quota -v' in their .login, things might get interesting. So you might want a config where the quota system call is there, even if it doesn't do anything incredibly useful...
-- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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