From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ookhoi Subject: no reiserfs quota in 2.4 yet? 2.4.21-pre4-ac4 says different Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:39:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20030217183957.O1284@humilis> Reply-To: ookhoi@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Hi Reiserfs team, Today I put a new kernel on a server which has reiserfs and needs quota. I searched for the quota patches (found them in the mail archive) and saw that they are very old: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.4/testing/quota-2.4.20 3 december 2002. They don't apply to a current kernel. I decided to use 2.4.20 with -pre4 and -ac4 patch. 01-quota-v2-2.4.20.diff has this: Quota support CONFIG_QUOTA If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk - usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works only for the - ext2 file system. You need additional software in order to use quota - support; for details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from + usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the + ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. You need additional software + in order to use quota support (you can download sources from + ). For further details, read + the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from . Probably the quota support is only useful for multi user systems. If unsure, say N. -ac 4 has this: Quota support CONFIG_QUOTA If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk - usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works only for the - ext2 file system. You need additional software in order to use quota - support; for details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from + usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the + ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. You need additional software + in order to use quota support (you can download sources from + ). For further details, read + the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from . Probably the quota support is only useful for multi user systems. If unsure, say N. Because none of the outdated patches apply to -pre4-ac4, and because of the above in -ac4, I thought that a 2.4.21-pre4-ac4 kernel would have quota. This, unfortunately, seems not the case. I have this line in fstab: /dev/md1 / reiserfs noatime,usrquota,grpquota 0 0 and get this error message: reiserfs_getopt: unknown option "usrquota" My quota tools are fresh, 3.08. Did I do something wrong? The setup worked with patched 2.4.19-rc1, but that one became old and we needed a few more modules. So for now I assume I'm bitten by no-quota-in-current-2.4-yet. If I'm right on that; Is there a reason quota is not in 2.4 yet? It has been stable (for me), and it exists for quite some time now. Did only half of the patches make it to Alan? The CONFIG_QUOTA is misleading. Btw, the faq on namesys.com says: Is quota-support built-in in the vanilla 2.4 kernels for ReiserFS? No, quota support for linux kernels from 2.4 branch are bundled separately and can be obtained from this location. The reason these patches are not included into 2.4 kernel branch is because they implement new quota format and need new quota code too, which is too big of a change for 2.4 series of kernels. Various Linux distributions vendors (ie SuSE) do ship reiserfs-quota enabled kernels, though. The "from this location" link points to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/reiserfs/quota-2.4 which contains patches one year old. May I ask, what is the future of quota in reiserfs for the 2.4 kernel? Should I wait for new patches? Try to apply them by hand, or did too much change? Will quota be integrated in the 2.4 kernel soonish? Thanks for your time!