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From: Johann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
Subject: Re: quotacheck on 'tune2fs -O quota'
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:03:56 +0100
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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