Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:23:33 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: some curiosities on the filesystems layout in kernel config |
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> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:00:40 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> said: > > > 3) currently, since quotas are only supported for ext2, ext3 and > > reiserfs, shouldn't quotas depend on at least one of those > > being selected? Quotas work also for other filesystems...
> 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... You're right that it won't be in the kernel but in that case 'quota -v' will just say 'Disk quotas for user test (uid 1000): none' (in case you haven't any filesystem mounted with usrquota option which is reasonable if you haven't quotas in kernel).
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