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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list_lock usage in dquot.c
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:06:32 +0000
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:03:05PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> With filesystems that can turn on their quota after mount time (about 
> every fs except xfs), I can surely have a ton of files open, and hence, 
> if I understand correctly, have lots of inodes instantiated.

Yes, you can in theory.  But turning on quota on a filesystem in full
steam useage is not a common use case and thus there is no point in
optimizing for it.