Re: Quotas aand 2.5.x

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 04:43, Philippe Gramoullé wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:06:40 +0300
> Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> 
>   |  Philippe, am I right in guessing that you don't need it urgently?  If 
>   |   so, I will let Chris do it, and it might take just a bit longer.
> 
> Actually, right now, we still have that nasty bug every time we run quotacheck that prenvent us from enabling them on several filerservers which is a big problem right now (that's on 2.4.x)
> 

Could you please list the revisions and patches you have testing the
overflow fix?

> As i thought that now most of efforts are put into 2.5.x, i might be able to take advantage of all the new functionnalities but what i do need is Reiserfs + NFS + quota.
> 
> On the NFS part , there have been so many enhancements in 2.5.x (and on other parts as well) that i'm really eager to give it a try.
> 

2.5.x has many enhancements and many bugs.  I strongly recommend against
using it for any type of production work, since the development path
isn't stable.  By this I mean bug fixes might be mixed with other large
changes that break things.

> Could Chris tell me then how much time does he think it will take to have quota in 2.5.x.
> 

Honestly I'm not sure.  I'm trying for a minimal data logging port to
get the journaling improvements in, even the -o data=journal isn't
immediately supported.

-chris