Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
"J. Bruce Fields" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:13:06PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Right now it is, but there's ben patches in the past to introduce > project quotas to ext4. That didn't go far because it was done in a > way that was semantically different to XFS (for no reason that I > could understand) and nobody wanted two different sets of semantics > for the "same" feature. The most common use of project quotas is to > implement sub-tree quotas, (Though it's also useful as a way to do safe subtree NFS exports). --b. > which is probably of more interest to > btrfs folks as it is an exact match for per-subvolume quotas. > > So, yes, I do see it as something generically useful - it's a > feature that a lot of people use XFS specifically for.... > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > [email protected] > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html