[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 09/10] Implement quota support for disabling SPARSE feature

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Wed Jul 29 03:12:53 PDT 2009


On Tue 28-07-09 18:39:45, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:18:41PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > When filling holes after disabling SPARSE feature, we have to
> > properly update quota information.
> 
> I read this as we adjust the quota but don't enforce it.  That is, if
> filling a hole will make a user over quota, we allow that to happen.
> Right?
  Yes, that's what I've decided makes the most sense. It's in the spirit
of "superuser ignores quota limits". Alternatively, we could issue a
warning or even fail the conversion when some user would go over quota
limit but I don't really see the use case.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR



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