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Re: fs-independent quotas



On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:45:02PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:35:51PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Yes, but I don't need to create a new syscall, with the versionning
> > issues this has.
> 
> Instead you force every (userland) consumer to do compat code itself,
> and replace a simple structure conversion via copying with error prone
> "this dictionary might contain some or more of the following keys"
> type of code.

I agree.  Moving the problem around does not seem like a win to me.

Thor


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