Re: libquota proposal

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:19:18PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Mar 22,  1:10pm, dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: libquota proposal
> 
> | On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:21:26PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> |  > > (also, edquota and repquota seem fs-independent to me...)
> |  > 
> |  > no, they're not: they can directly the quota1 file specified in the
> |  > fstab if quotactl fails or the filesystem is not mounted.
> | 
> | That's a bug, or more accurately legacy behavior that doesn't need to
> | be supported. Once upon a time (IIRC) df used to fall back to opening
> | the block device and examining ffs structures directly; that was
> | removed because it violated desirable abstractions.
> 
> Totally agree, please remove this complex and hard to maintain stuff.

Once again: this needs to be supported for transition, up to 6.0 (inclusive).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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