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From: ST <smntov@gmail.com>
To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Several questions regarding btrfs
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:59:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1509638366.1662.142.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <173c1ba3-1a05-1a27-7bee-22141200cbf8@gmail.com>

> >> There's one other caveat though, only root can use the qgroup ioctls,
> >> which means that only root can check quotas.
> > 
> > Only root can check quotas?! That is really strange. How users are
> > supposed to know they are about to be out of space?... Is this by design
> > so and will remain like that or it's just because this feature was not
> > finished yet?
> > 
> I have no idea if it's intended to be that way, but quite a few things 
> in BTRFS are root-only that debatably should not be.  I think the quota 
> ioctls fall under the same category as the tree search ioctl, they 
> access data that's technically privileged and can let you see things 
> beyond the mount point they're run on.

Could somebody among developers please elaborate on this issue - is
checking quota going always to be done by root? If so - btrfs might be a
no-go for our use case...

Thank you!


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-02 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31 16:23 Several questions regarding btrfs ST
2017-10-31 17:45 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-31 18:51   ` Andrei Borzenkov
2017-10-31 19:07     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-31 20:06   ` ST
2017-11-01 12:01     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-11-01 14:05       ` ST
2017-11-01 15:31         ` Lukas Pirl
2017-11-01 17:20         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-11-02  9:09           ` ST
2017-11-02 11:01             ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-11-02 15:59               ` ST [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <E7316F3D-708C-4D5E-AB4B-F54B0B8471C1@rqc.ru>
2017-11-02 16:28                   ` ST
2017-11-02 17:13                     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-11-02 17:32                       ` Andrei Borzenkov
2017-11-01 17:52       ` Andrei Borzenkov
2017-11-01 18:28         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-11-01 12:15     ` Duncan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-31 16:29 ST
2017-11-06 21:48 ` waxhead

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