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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>,
	fstests@vger.kernel.org, Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ext4 quota tests fail with CONFIG_QFMT_V2=n
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:03:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180118160321.GA13944@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180118122125.pxgqttayxu6msdgl@quack2.suse.cz>

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 01:21:25PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Omar's problem is actually that he had no quota format enabled so tools
> failed miserably to enable quotas although xfstests thought quota should be
> available. That could be viewed as a bug in _require_quota() macro in xfstests
> but OTOH userspace has no way of knowing which quota formats are available
> - it can only try to enable quota on a particular fs and that either fails
> or not. So implementing proper _require_quota() macro would mean you have
> to do full quota setup for some filesystem, try to enable quotas, and see if
> that fails. Doable but frankly I'm not hugely interested in that for such a
> cornercase...

Yes, I'd much rather fix it in Kconfig.  The question I was asing is
really whether we could start deprecating QFMT_V1 by requiring QFMT_V2
and making QFMT_V1 the only optional format, and then changing the
tools to strongly bias the user towards using V2 --- and maybe making
it be impossible to create new QFMT_V1 format quota files at all at
some point.

It will take a while --- years no doubt --- but a journey of ten
thousand miles starts with a single step, as the saying goes.

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-18 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-18  1:09 ext4 quota tests fail with CONFIG_QFMT_V2=n Omar Sandoval
2018-01-18  1:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-01-18  2:16   ` Omar Sandoval
2018-01-18  4:08     ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-01-18  8:17       ` Omar Sandoval
2018-01-18 12:08         ` Jan Kara
2018-01-18 23:26         ` Dave Chinner
2018-01-18 12:21   ` Jan Kara
2018-01-18 16:03     ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2018-01-19  8:46       ` Jan Kara
2018-01-19 17:14         ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-01-24 10:44           ` Jan Kara
2018-01-18 18:07     ` Omar Sandoval

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