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

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:12:45PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 28-07-09 18:39:45, Joel Becker wrote:
> > 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.

	I agree, the superuser is asking for sparse to be removed, and
they have no quota.  Upon remount, the regular user obviously can't
create anything until they get below quota.  So this is the right
behavior.

Joel

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