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From: Johann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
To: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Cc: Niu <niu@whamcloud.com>, tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: quotacheck on 'tune2fs -O quota'
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:03:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111104090356.GC6205@granier.hd.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGr1F2FMvsZ6eLJid4z0RpJcAm5paEfbJwrtFE7iqbr_bA4BTA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:13:21PM -0700, Aditya Kali wrote:
> I have a patch that removes use of existing quota files altogether by
> tune2fs. This is because since we cannot rely on the data in the
> existing quota files (we have to recompute the quota on the system
> anyways), there is no point in reusing those files.

The old quota files also contain enforcement information which will thus be lost.
To sum up, there is no way to upgrade without losing all quota limits?

Cheers,
Johann

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03  5:20 quotacheck on 'tune2fs -O quota' Niu
2011-11-04  0:13 ` Aditya Kali
2011-11-04  9:03   ` Johann Lombardi [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CAGr1F2FQ=MAqd8NiamZ39K9dX8YC_JiaUszFod3tG=CK+W0GGQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-07 20:38       ` Johann Lombardi
2011-11-07 21:28         ` Ted Ts'o
2011-11-07 21:56           ` Aditya Kali

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