Re: Quota Hash Abstraction 2.6.0-test2

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <20030903161435.GC24897@DUK2.13thfloor.at>,
Herbert Poetzl  <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:56:58PM +0000, bill davidsen wrote:
| > In article <20030731184341.GA21078@www.13thfloor.at>,
| > Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?=  <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
| > 
| > Is any of this, particularly the work mentioned in the last paragraph
| > getting into the mail kernel?
| 
| the quota fix was included in the next (test) release
| so default quota will work again ...

Thanks for the quick response, that was my prime concern. I expect to
need quota again in the near future.
| 
| the Quota Hash Abstraction is neither a (big) performance
| gain nor a feature bonus for the end user ... it is more
| an enhancement to the code itself, allowing to have more
| than one quota hash for arbitrary purposes ...
| 
| I doubt, that this code will ever make it into mainline
| without another 'good' reason to use it, but maybe the
| --bind mount quota stuff would be such a reason, if the 
| interest for such things will eventually grow ...
| 
| HTH,
| Herbert

Big help, I have never had a performance problem with the quota stuff
other than not performing at all ;-) Good to have the code handy though,
use often follows capability rather than drives it.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.